SHORT TAKES
THEY ONLY KILL THEIR MASTERS — (MGM): On the eve of this movie’s screening, CREEM’s guard dog turned on the publisher/trainer who was friendly feeding it milkbones. Twenty-seven stitches later... James Garner and Katherine Ross are involved with each other and a Doberman named Murphy.
SHORT TAKES
THEY ONLY KILL THEIR MASTERS — (MGM): On the eve of this movie’s screening, CREEM’s guard dog turned on the publisher/trainer who was friendly feeding it milkbones. Twenty-seven stitches later... James Garner and Katherine Ross are involved with each other and a Doberman named Murphy. Garner, who plays “Able” Abel Marsh, the Eden Landing Chief of Police (a mixture of Philip Marlowe and Columbo) and Ross, a veterinarian’s assistant, are supposed to kill the dog, who’s the primary suspect in a woman’s death at the onset of the movie. Through a slow, humorous series of events the dog is released and the real murderer of the dead, pregnant lesbian is revealed. Masters is custom-made for TV. One of the openers, “Don’t be nervous Mr. Marsh, they only kill their masters,” must be CREEM’s assurance that their editor is safe. Neat.
