Finding Rin Tin Tin is a 2007 family comedy film directed by Israeli filmmaker Danny Lerner. Based loosely on historical events, the film is the most recent in a long line that includes the canine character Rin Tin Tin.
Rin Tin Tin, the legendary German Shepherd, is rescued as a shell-shocked puppy from the World War I battlefield in Lorraine, France, by Lee Duncan, an American serviceman. The puppy is taken to America and becomes the hero of several films made in the 1920s and 1930s.
Finding Rin Tin Tin is the lowest ranked film on the French website AlloCiné, compiling the ratings of several film critics and was unanimously ranked 1 star.
In October 2008, Daphne Hereford, an American woman breeding progeny of the original Rin Tin Tin, asked a federal court in Houston, Texas, to protect her rights to the Rin Tin Tin name. The judge ruled in favor of the filmmakers, declaring the use of the name in the film to be fair use.