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Snoopy, Come Home is a 1972 American animated musical comedy-drama film, produced by Cinema Center Films and Lee Mendelson Films, released by National General Pictures, and directed by Bill Melendez. This is the second theatrical feature film based on the Peanuts comic strip (as well as the television specials). The songs are by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman. It was National General Pictures' second animated feature, after its predecessor, A Boy Named Charlie Brown.

It is also one of only four adaptations of Peanuts to other media that does not have "Charlie Brown" in the title, the other three being Snoopy!!! The Musical (both stage and animated), Snoopy's Reunion, Peanuts, The Peanuts Movie, Snoopy in Space, and The Snoopy Show.

The film was released on DVD in anamorphic widescreen in the U.S. on March 28, 2006, by Paramount Pictures/CBS Home Entertainment (CBS owned Cinema Center Films, which co-produced the film).

The film was released on Blu-ray with A Boy Named Charlie Brown on September 6, 2016.

Despite only making $245,073 against a $1 million budget, the film was critically acclaimed.

Snoopy, Come Home won a CEC Award for Best Children's Film.

Plot

Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang go to the beach for the day. Although Charlie Brown is chased by Linus for throwing a pebble back into the ocean, Snoopy and Peppermint Patty have a wonderful time playing in the surf and building sandcastles together. At the end of the day, Snoopy promises to come back to the beach the next day to meet up with her again. While Charlie Brown and the others have gone home to play Monopoly, he notices Snoopy is late and begins to get frustrated at how independent Snoopy has become; coming and going as he pleases. But Charlie Brown has to stay home and fix Snoopy's supper. This is only made worse when he later cuts his thumb when opening Snoopy's can of dog food with a can opener. Now angry, Charlie Brown confronts Snoopy about how ungrateful the beagle has been acting. Despite Charlie Brown's reminders about how much work he has to put in to take care of Snoopy, Snoopy seems to simply shrug his owner off.

The next day, Snoopy is thrown off the beach due to a new "No Dogs Allowed" rule and has Woodstock write a complaint letter about it. Later, Snoopy gets thrown out of a library while enjoying his favorite "Bunnies" book due to another "No Dogs Allowed" rule. He then gets into a fight with Linus for his blanket, and later beats Lucy in a boxing match.

Sometime later, Snoopy is shocked to receive a letter from a girl named Lila, who has been in the hospital for three weeks (for reasons unknown) and needs Snoopy to keep her company. Upon receiving the letter, he immediately sets off with Woodstock to go see her, leaving Charlie Brown completely in the dark as to who Lila is. But when Linus decides to do some investigating, he discovers, to Charlie Brown's horror, that Lila is Snoopy's original owner. Charlie Brown promptly faints upon hearing this. When he regains consciousness, he begins to worry that Snoopy wishes he was still her dog instead of his, given how abruptly Snoopy left to see her.

Charlie Brown falls into a depression while Snoopy is away, and Peppermint Patty tries to cheer him up by taking him to a carnival. This does not go well for Charlie Brown, as, in addition to failing miserably at every carnival game they play, he barely makes it through the turnstile in one piece, much to Peppermint Patty's confusion. Later, Peppermint Patty becomes flirtatious with Charlie Brown and asks him what he thinks 'love' is. She is disappointed when Charlie tells a strange and off-putting story about his father being locked out of his car by a 'cute girl' (possibly his mother).

En route to see Lila, Snoopy, with Woodstock along, is forced to face the challenges of a world full of signs declaring "No Dogs Allowed" (including on a bus, train, and more, musically accented by the deep tones of Thurl Ravenscroft, except one brief line where a female singer adds "That goes for birds!", when Woodstock is ejected after Snoopy with one means of transport that had that sign as well), and they also face the perils of being the pets of an annoying girl named Clara (whose name is only identified in the closed-captioning and the movie poster), before managing to escape. The two best friends even camp out and play football and music while preparing dinner.

Snoopy finally arrives at the hospital but, again, no dogs are allowed in. To add further insult, the hospital does not allow birds to enter either. Snoopy is foiled in his first attempt to sneak into Lila's room, but he is successful the second time. He then keeps Lila company for the rest of the time she is hospitalized. Lila credits Snoopy with his visit, claiming that it helped her get better. She then mentions that when she gets better, she would like Snoopy to go home with her, but he has doubts about this idea.

Lila tries to convince Snoopy to stay with her, but finally the two part ways. However, upon seeing her watching him tearfully from her hospital window, Snoopy's resolve cracks and he grudgingly runs back to her, which she takes as a sign that he wants to live with her. After this moment, he returns home to 'settle his affairs' and say goodbye. When Charlie Brown notices Snoopy has returned, he throws a flurry of questions about Lila, the trip, and even how Snoopy is feeling but is frustrated to get no answer. Snoopy then writes a letter that states that he is returning to Lila and that certain items of his will be given away: Linus is given his croquet set and chess set, and Schroeder receives Snoopy's record collection.

The kids throw Snoopy a large, tearful going-away party, each one bringing a gift. The kids closest to Snoopy get up to say a few words in his honor. But when it is Charlie Brown's turn to speak, he is overwhelmed to the point of silence. He finally bursts into tears with Snoopy doing likewise. The rest of the gang, even Lucy, eventually follows suit when Schroeder plays "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" on his piano after Snoopy opens his mountain of presents (every single one is a bone).

With Snoopy leaving, Charlie Brown is unable to sleep or eat. He later admits to Linus that he even prepared a dinner dish for Snoopy and took it out to his now-abandoned doghouse before remembering that Snoopy was gone.

When a depressed Snoopy arrives at Lila's apartment building the next day, he is overjoyed to see a sign next to the door that says "No dogs allowed in this building" before Lila comes to the door. Then he is reluctantly introduced to Lila's pet cat. Snoopy then interrupts Lila, and with a grin on his face, shows her the sign. Now released from his personal obligation by this discovery, Snoopy leaves Lila behind and joyfully returns to Charlie Brown and the others.

Sometime later, the neighborhood kids are sitting outside, remembering Snoopy, when Woodstock gets a hunch that Snoopy might be on his way back. He whistles the first line of their song from the camp-out "The Best of Buddies", but gets no response. Suddenly, the orchestra starts playing a triumphant version of "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" as Snoopy comes into view. The kids also notice him and, in their delight, join in singing the song, holding him on their shoulders as they take him back to his doghouse. However, Snoopy, again through Woodstock's typewritten letter, demands back the stuff he gave to the gang before he left, much to their anger. The only exception is Charlie Brown, who, Snoopy points out, owes him nothing, because Snoopy gave him nothing. Lucy then snaps, "That does it, Charlie Brown! He's YOUR dog AND YOU ARE WELCOME TO HIM!" The gang then leaves Charlie Brown and Snoopy together, then Charlie Brown walks crossly away. The film ends with end titles being typed out by Woodstock as Snoopy dictates.

Voice cast

Featured vocalists

  • Guy Pohlman – Charlie Brown's singing voice
  • Shelby Flint – Lila's singing voice
  • Thurl Ravenscroft
  • Don Ralke
  • Ray Pohlman

Patty, "Pig-Pen", Violet, Shermy, Roy, 555 95472 and Franklin appear but are silent.

Songs

Snoopy speaks

Snoopy, Come Home marked the first time Snoopy's thoughts are fully communicated to the audience outside of the comic strip. This was achieved by having his typed correspondences appear at the top of the frame, giving the viewer full access to his thoughts. Previously, Schulz had opted to mute Snoopy entirely, his thought balloons, which feature so prominently in the strip, being removed. Without the benefit of a voice (other than his indecipherable growl-like speaking), Snoopy's signature rants were lost on television and film until Snoopy, Come Home.

Music score

Snoopy, Come Home was the only Peanuts animated project produced during Vince Guaraldi's lifetime (1928-1976) that did not contain a musical score by the noted jazz composer. Guaraldi had composed all the previous Peanuts animated television specials as well as the debut feature film A Boy Named Charlie Brown. Music for this film was instead composed by the brothers Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, who were notable for the music used in many Disney films. Schulz said this was an experiment, as he had wanted to have more of a commercial, Disney feel to Snoopy, Come Home.

Schulz later said he would have utilized Guaraldi's services for the third Peanuts feature, Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown, had the composer not died suddenly in 1976.

A soundtrack was released by Columbia Records but is now out of print. It is unknown if it will ever be re-released.

Musical numbers

Censorship

On occasions, when the film airs on TV, some of the parts where Snoopy fights with Linus and Lucy are cut, either for being too violent or for time reasons. The part where Sally finds a copy of Sambo in the library is also often cut.

Notes

  • The main story of this movie based on the comics strips from August, 1968.
  • Woodstock and Franklin make their first on-screen appearances in this film.
  • Many of the main actors were crying during the scene where Schroeder plays "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" on his piano while their characters cried. (i.e. Stephen Shea can be heard crying).
  • The snoopy goodbye party scene is similar to the Berenstain bears episode The Berenstain Bears and the Slumber Party. but unlike the episode:
    • In the episode, the party starts out mildly chaotic as the girls make a mess, and doesn't start to get really loud and crazy until Too-Tall and his gang crash the party with their boombox on full blast. However in the movie Schroeder plays "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" on his piano But the other characters cry.
    • In the episode, Cindy yells out "QUIET!" and everything comes to a standstill just as Mr. and Mrs. Bruin enter the living room and the parents came to pick up their cubs. But that does not happen due to there being no counterpart for cindy.
    • In the episode, Mama grounds Sister. but in the movie none of the kids including snoopy get punished Because once again due to there being no counterpart for cindy.
  • This is the only animated material to depict Charlie Brown crying for a prolonged period (though he sheds a single tear in A Boy Named Charlie Brown and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown).
  • During Lucy and Linus's respectively phone calls to the Humane Society and the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm, the trombone's "wah-wah-wah" sounds can be heard faintly. This marks one of two instances of the sounds being heard over the phone, the second being A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving released a year later.
  • The reason this film was a box office bomb was because Cinema Center Films was shutting down around when this film was in production. This kept the film from being properly advertised prior to its release.

Goofs

  • There are several errors while the gang is playing Monopoly:
    • Charlie Brown rolls a seven. The shot cuts to him when he says, "Seven!" and you can see that his mouth is not moving.
    • Lucy rolls a 12, but she doesn't move her pawn the full 12 spaces.
    • Charlie Brown, Lucy, Schroeder, and Linus play Monopoly with a Yahtzee dice cup.
    • On the Monopoly board, Free Parking is where In Jail/Just Visiting is supposed to be.
  • Lila is in the hospital for three weeks, yet she isn't on any IV medicine.
  • When Clara is chasing Snoopy and Woodstock, she is holding the leash in her hand. When she is standing at the top of the stairs, the leash is gone. In the next shot, when she is sliding down the banister, she's holding the leash again.
  • When Snoopy opens his gifts, the dots on Sally's dress are missing.
  • When Lila is writing her letter, she writes two lines, then sucks on her pencil. When she goes back to writing, she writes the second line again. she also writes the first part of another line when the other part of it is already written.
  • When Clara is singing and dresses Snoopy up in a dress, she pours the tea and overfills the teacup. It spills over onto the table and drips onto Snoopy's dress. She gets upset about his dress being "dirty" and spanks him. When Snoopy gets away from Clara and runs to the phone, his dress is clean.
  • Snoopy puts his food dish on his head and he is seen without it in the next shot, but it doesn't show him taking it off.
  • When Clara starts choking Snoopy as she catches him, his nose disappears for a few frames.
  • Lila is very sad in expression when Snoopy say good-bye to her. But in the next shot, she smile to snoopy temporarily.

Gallery

Closeing Credit

External links

See also

Peanuts Animated Features
TV Specials Released 1960s A Charlie Brown ChristmasCharlie Brown's All-StarsIt's the Great Pumpkin...You're in Love...He's Your Dog...It Was a Short Summer...
1970s Play It Again...You're Not Elected...There's No Time for Love...A Charlie Brown ThanksgivingIt's a Mystery...It's the Easter Beagle...Be My Valentine...You're a Good Sport...It's Arbor Day...It's Your First Kiss...What a Nightmare...You're the Greatest...
1980s She's a Good Skate...Life Is a Circus...It's Magic...Someday You'll Find Her...A Charlie Brown CelebrationIs This Goodbye...?It's an Adventure...What Have We Learned...?It's Flashbeagle...Snoopy's Getting Married...You're a Good Man...Happy New Year...!Snoopy!!! The MusicalIt's the Girl in the Red Truck...
1990s Why, Charlie Brown, Why?Snoopy's ReunionIt's Spring Training...It's Christmastime Again...You're in the Super Bowl...It Was My Best Birthday Ever...
2000s It's the Pied Piper...A Charlie Brown ValentineCharlie Brown's Christmas TalesLucy Must Be Traded...I Want a Dog for Christmas...He's a Bully...
2010s Happiness Is a Warm Blanket...
2020s For Auld Lang SyneIt's The Small Things...To Mom (and Dad), With LoveLucy's SchoolOne-of-a-Kind MarcieWelcome Home, Franklin
Movies A Boy Named Charlie BrownSnoopy, Come HomeRace for Your Life, Charlie BrownBon Voyage, Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back!!)The Peanuts Movie
The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show Season 1 "Snoopy's Cat Fight" • "Snoopy: Team Manager" • "Linus and Lucy" • "Lucy vs. the World" • "Linus' Security Blanket" • "Snoopy: Man's Best Friend" • "Snoopy the Psychiatrist" • "You Can't Win, Charlie Brown" • "The Lost Ballpark" • "Snoopy's Football Career" • "Chaos in the Classroom" • "It's That Team Spirit, Charlie Brown" • "Lucy Loves Schroeder"
Season 2 "Snoopy and the Giant" • "Snoopy's Brother Spike" • "Snoopy's Robot" • "Peppermint Patty's School Days" • "Sally's Sweet Babboo"
This Is America, Charlie Brown "The Mayflower Voyagers" • "The Birth of the Constitution" • "The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk" • "The NASA Space Station" • "The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad" • "The Great Inventors" • "The Smithsonian and the Presidency" • "The Music and Heroes of America"
Snoopy in Space "The Application" • "Training" • "The Graduation" • "Welcome to the ISS" • "I Never Promised You a Space Garden" • "Space Sleepwalking" • "The Journey on Orion" • "Crater Crash" • "Searching for Moon Rocks" • "You're a Good Moon, Charlie Brown" • "The Next Mission" • "Mars or Bust"
Others Peanuts (2014 TV series) • Peanuts Motion ComicsThe Snoopy ShowCamp Snoopy
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