The Shaggy Dog (1959 film)

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The Shaggy Dog is a black and white 1959 Walt Disney movie about a teenager who is transformed into a sheep dog by a magic ring, and was the first ever Walt Disney live-action comedy. It starred Fred MacMurray, Tommy Kirk, Jean Hagen, Kevin Corcoran, Tim Considine, Roberta Shore, and Annette Funicello. The movie was originally advertised as "the funniest shaggy dog story ever told", although it is not in fact a story of that genre. The director was Charles Barton.

Walt Disney Productions filmed a sequel in 1976 called The Shaggy D.A. which starred Dean Jones, Tim Conway, and Suzanne Pleshette, and in 1988, a made for TV movie called The Return of the Shaggy Dog continued the adventures of the boy turned sheepdog.

In 2006, Disney released a very loose "remake" of the movie with an entirely different story and characters, unrelated to the original trilogy.

[edit] Cast

• Fred MacMurray ... Wilson Daniels
• Jean Hagen ... Frieda Daniels
• Tommy Kirk ... Wilby Daniels
• Annette Funicello ... Allison D'Allesio
• Tim Considine ... Buzz Miller
• Kevin Corcoran ... Montgomery 'Moochie' Daniels
• Cecil Kellaway ... Professor Plumcutt
• Alexander Scourby ... Dr. Mikhail Andrassy
• Roberta Shore ... Francesca Andrassy
• James Westerfield ... Officer Hanson
• Strother Martin ... Thurm
• Forrest Lewis ... Officer Kelly
• Ned Wever ... Security Agent E.P. Hackett
• Gordon Jones ... Police Captain Scanlon
• Jacques Aubuchon ... Stefano

[edit] External links

• The Shaggy Dog at the Internet Movie Database
• UltimateDisney.com: The Shaggy Dog (1959) DVD Review
• The Shaggy Dog (2006) at the Internet Movie Database