The Amazing Dobermans (1976)

Director
Byron Chudnow

Main cast
Fred Astaire; James Franciscus; Barbara Eden; Jack Carter

Genres
Crime, Comedy

Description
An ex-con man and his five trained Dobermans help a Treasury Dept. agent stop a racketeer and his gang.


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