Kuffs (1992)

George Kuffs didn't finish high-school, just lost his job, and his college-age girlfriend is pregnant. To top it off, George's brother Brad is killed and George inherits Brad's "patrol special" privatized police district and all the problems that come with it.
Modified Certification

  Animal Action

Poster for Kuffs
Kuffs
Release Date: January 10, 1992
Certification: Modified Certification

During one scene George breaks into a Chinese laundry with a borrowed St. Bernard police dog. He opens a side window that leads to a laundry chute. The dog goes in first, sliding down the chute into a laundry bin full of clothes, which cushions his landing, and the bin rolls a short distance across the floor. The dog had been trained to slide down the chute (approximately five feet) and sit in the laundry bin, which was being held steady by the trainer off camera. When the dog is sitting in the moving laundry bin, it is being moved by the trainer from behind the bin to make it appear as if the dog’s momentum caused the move. Once inside of the laundry the dog sniffs out some stolen art work. As George is looking at the paintings, four hoods enter, gag George, tie him to a chair, and place a bomb next to him. George’s friend Ted, a bumbling policeman, comes looking for George. He discovers that George is inside the building when he hears the dog howling. Ted goes into the laundry and has just enough time to untie George before the bomb goes off. Ted, George and the dog jump through a plate glass window and escape just before the explosion. The plate glass window was candy glass. A stuntman jumped through the window and the dog followed after the stuntman while being called by his trainer off camera. The dog does not actually break through the candy glass.