C.H.O.M.P.S.

C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979)

When it comes to home security, he's the top dog!

A young man invents a robot dog that has super strength, x-ray vision and can detect crimes being committed. A greedy businessman tries to steal the boy's invention from him.

Date of release
1979-12-21
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (22)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Family, Comedy, Science Fiction
Director
Don Chaffey

Casting

Interesting facts

C.H.O.M.P.S. is a 1979 American comic science fiction film produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and directed by Don Chaffey. It is one of Hanna-Barbera’s live-action productions, despite their being primarily known as an animation studio.

Production

Joseph Barbera approached his friend Samuel Z. Arkoff of American International Pictures about his company collaborating with Hanna-Barbera on live-action films. Though William Hanna and other members of Hanna-Barbera were not eager to venture beyond the animation field, according to Barbera, Arkoff was enthusiastic about the ideas that Barbera presented, and agreed in November 1975 to make four films together.

Barbera recalled that Arkoff's son Louis suggested that rather than a Doberman, the dog should be a non-threatening dog in the Benji mold. Barbera attributes this change in focus in the story to the film's lackluster performance at the box office. In his autobiography, Barbera wrote that the film "did okay... but it never made the splash it should have." Because of this, the future film deals between Hanna-Barbera and AIP were canceled.

Burt Topper worked on the movie as producer with Barbera, with Arkoff as executive producer.

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