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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Excellent but underrated film

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

We all have those classic movies about animals that we watched when we were little ones, and hopefully if you've got any senses about you, still revisit as an adult. Well, most people have a few of those... I've got at least like twenty. One couple of movies that are very dear to me are Shiloh, and Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season, two indisputable classics that I was pretty much raised on, and have a burning nostalgia for. Shiloh boils down to one simple, loving archetype: a boy and his dog. Or, rather, a boy who desperately wishes to save a dog from going down the same road of violence and abuse that it's currant owner has. Marty Preston (Blake Heron, and Zachary Browne in the sequel because they just can't stick with one actor) is a young rural lad with a wholesome life and family, wishing for a dog of his own. Local roughneck and hunter Judd Travers (Scott Wilson) owns a whole pack of mutts that he mistreats when drunk, and aims to turn them all into vicious hunting dogs. When one small beagle escapes, it makes its way onto Preston land and suddenly Marty finds he has a new best friend. His stern father Ray (inimitable Michael Moriarty) warns him that the dog is probably Judd's, while his mother (excellent character actress Ann Dowd) urges compassion from her husband. Soon enough Judd comes looking, and conflict arises between the boy and the bitter old hunter. It's a children's story so nothing too messed up ever happens, but there's some touching lessons and surprising gravitas from both Moriarty and Wilson that is nice to see from such a seemingly innocuous, kid oriented franchise. Judd shows beautiful complexity in the sequel, the writing allowing Wilson to illustrate that not all mean people started out that way, and that with a little kindness and a lot of patience, old wounds can be burrowed into and treated. I first became a fan of Scott through the Shiloh films and he will always be Judd Travers to me. Marty finds a friend in Shiloh, getting right to the point of what these movies are about: friendship. New friends, old friends, and letting people in who need someone and don't even know it. It's great stuff, timeless to be sure, and always guaranteed to draw forth a smile. Rod Steiger lends his famous kind streak to the role of Doc Wallace, a convenience store owner with sagely wisdom for Marty and his fellow friends, as well as compassion for Judd. Now, there's a third film, also with Wilson but yet another different actor for Marty, and Moriarty sitting it out as well, which is why I haven't checked it out so far. Maybe it's time.

"From the 'Newbery Award'-winning book," proclaims the Warner Bros. synopsis, "Shiloh, an adorable beagle, runs away from his neglectful owner, and is found by young Marty (Blake Heron). Marty knows that Shiloh belongs to someone else, but is determined to save the dog from more neglect. Against the wishes of the dog's owner (Scott Wilson) and his father (Michael Moriarty), Marty risks everything to make the dog his own." Good summation of a great film for young children, based on a classic novel.If memory serves, there was no incongruously flirty "tomboy" girlfriend in Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's original story; this character was played up to give the film greater appeal, probably. Still, Dale Rosenbloom does well in capturing the essence of the novel, which thoughtfully plays up the issue of animal rights. "Shiloh" and the humans perform well, with Mr. Wilson (as Judd Travers) adept at conveying the villainous owner of Shiloh is actually a wounded man. He has the right to kick Shiloh around, or does he? ******* Shiloh (11/10/96) Dale Rosenbloom ~ Blake Heron, Scott Wilson, Michael Moriarty, Ann Dowd

In the first 5 minutes the kid works on showing us how not to use riffle by pointing it around, followed by unbelted car ride with his father. I saw nothing even remotely watchable in this move and about halfway through turned it off. A complete waste of time unless you like animal cruelty and self torture, which me and my 6 year old are not. Oh and speaking of torture the actors look like they are being torture by the script. Feel sorry for the poor guy that had to edit this, but not like he spent much time. Think I will pay the library for this movie just so I can destroy the DVD and save others from this. IF you see this movie run, run, run!

(There are some Spoilers) Very moving family movie having to do with the this little sweet sad sack looking beagle named Shiloh, after the bride where he found the puppy, by 12 year old Marty Preston,Blake Heron.Little Shiloh is taken home by Marty who's parents Ray & Dana Lynn Preston, Michael Moriarty & Shira Roth, are anything but thrilled with him. The poor dog is suffering from a number of injuries including a vicious gash over his left eye and the veterinary cost to bring him back to good health are just too much from the Prestons. Having re-financed his home to pay the family's bills another mouth to feed is the last thing that the hard working and money strapped Ray Preston needs.As Marty tries to convince his parents to keep Shiloh as the family pet the matter of keeping or not keeping the cute little beagle is suddenly cleared up with local hunter Judd Travers, Scott Wilson, showing up in the film. It turns out that Shiloh, or dog # 5 as Judd calls him, ran away from Judd's kennel where he keeps his pack dogs that he uses to hunt game; raccoons possum and rabbits.Marty is forced by his dad to give Shiloh, who's since become very attached to him, back to the hard driving and abusive Judd Travers where Shiloh ends up being again brutally beaten and kicked around this time within an inch of his life. Shiloh escaping for the second time from the Judd house has Marty, whom Shiloh came limping back to, now more determined then ever to keep the dog no matter what it takes! Even if he has to work himself to death to make enough money to buy Shiloh off of Judd Travers' hands.The film "Shiloh" is far better then your average "Boy and his Dog" Walt Disney-like flick in its depiction of the grown ups as well as young people in it. Everyone in the movie including the at first despicable Judd Travers have their good as well, especially with Judd, as bad points in how they deal with the realities of life. In this case the treatment of the star of the film sweet little Shiloh. Marty as kind and as loving as he is toward Shiloh really has no answer to what he'll do if he ever gets the dog as a pet!It's when Marty is given the chance, by Judd Travers, to work off Shiloh's price, $40.00, that he's willing to sell him for that the 12 year-old Marty Preston soon realizes that not all is right in the adult world of business and finance. That's especially true if you, or in this case Marty Preston, don't have the legal papers to back your business transaction up.In the end even the cold hearted and all business-like Judd Travers gives into both Marty and his parents, who have since fallen in love with the sweet little pooch, in keeping Shiloh as the Prestons family pet. I found Judd who at first was by far the most unlikable person in the film the most, after Shiloh of course, sympathetic person in the movie.It didn't take that much to get you to like little Shiloh, you fell in love with the cute and sad-eyed little beagle as soon as you saw him, but it took a lot, a hell of a lot, to change Judd Travers around. Travers not only let Shiloh, who legally belonged to him, go back to the Prestons but completely change his attitude about man's best friend as well. It also took the hard work and sacrifice by Marty, in working his butt off for Judd, to get Judd to appreciate what a powerful bond Marty and Shiloh had between themselves. Trying to stiff Marty out of the bargain, or verbal agreement, that he made with him in getting Shiloh back Judd tried to pull a fast one in nullifying the contract, that had no sighed witnesses, he had with Marty. It was when Judd saw how Shiloh acted as he was driving him back to his dog kennel and, with the badly injured Shiloh really no use to him as a hunting dog, curtain death Judd finally saw the light and let his heart, not his business mind, take over.