Beethoven (film) Beethoven (film) Beethoven is a 1992 family comedy film, directed by Brian Levant and starring Charles Grodin and Bonnie Hunt as George and Alice Newton. The film is the first in the series of "Beethoven" films. It was written by John Hughes (under the pseudonym Edmond Dantès) and Amy Holden Jones. The story centers on a St. Bernard dog named after the composer Ludwig van Beethoven and owned by the Newton family. "Beethoven" co-stars Nicholle Tom as Ryce Newton, Christopher Castile as Ted Newton, Sarah Rose Karr as Emily Newton, Stanley Tucci as Vernon, Oliver Platt as Harvey, and Dean
The Case of the Howling Dog the dog for a lookalike. He gives Bessie the dog and orders her not to tell anyone what really happened. Perry later tells Della that he is sure that whatever Bessie did was in self-defense. On October 23, 2012, Warner Home Video released the film on DVD in Region 1 via their Warner Archive Collection alongside "The Case of the Curious Bride", "The Case of the Lucky Legs", "The Case of the Velvet Claws", "The Case of the Black Cat" and "The Case of the Stuttering Bishop" in a set entitled "Perry Mason: The Original Warner Bros. Movies Collection". This