Love-Tails of Morocco

One of the movies I watched off the DVR recently had enough time left over at the end for a short, so TCM ran the Dogville short Love Tails of Morocco.

I hadn't seen this one before, but since it's a Dogville short, you know what to expect. This one is a parody of the foreign legion movies that were popular at the beginning of the sound era. A group of dogs have run off to join the legion, all because of women. (Well, I suppose you could technically get away with calling them bitches, since they are female dogs....) Four brief stories follow of how a female dog got them in trouble and how they had to join the Foreign Legion to get away from the trouble. They all foreswear women, but of course that's not going to happen.

Personally, I've preferred some of the other entries in the series, especially The Dogway Melody and Trader Hound. Love-Tails of Morocco isn't exactly bad; it's just that putting four vignettes into a short doesn't really work here since you've already got the gimmick of having the dogs play human roles.

MGM has released all of the Dogville shorts on their own set.