The Shaggy Dog(1959)

03/19/1959 (US)Comedy, Family, Fantasy1h 44m

6.2

""I was a Teen-age boy!""

Overview

Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inopportune times and the spell can only be broken by an act of bravery....

Charles Barton

Director

Bill Walsh

Screenplay

Lillie Hayward

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Fred MacMurray

Wilson Daniels

Jean Hagen

Freeda Daniels

Tommy Kirk

Wilby Daniels

Annette Funicello

Allison D'Allessio

Tim Considine

Buzz Miller

Kevin Corcoran

Moochie (Montgomery) Daniels

Cecil Kellaway

Professor Plumcutt

Alexander Scourby

Dr. Mikhail Andrassy

Roberta Shore

Franceska Andrassy

James Westerfield

Officer Hanson

Strother Martin

Thurm

Forrest Lewis

Officer Kelly

Ned Wever

FBI Chief E.P. Hackett

Gordon Jones

Captain Scanlon, Police Chief

Jacques Aubuchon

Stefano

Jack Albertson

Reporter (uncredited)

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Part of the The Shaggy Dog Collection

The Shaggy Dog is a 1959 Walt Disney film about Wilby Daniels, a teenage boy who by the power of an enchanted ring of the Borgias is transformed into the title character, a shaggy Old English Sheepdog. The film was based on the story, The Hound of Florence by Felix Salten. It is directed by Charles Barton and stars Fred MacMurray, Tommy Kirk, Jean Hagen, Kevin Corcoran, Tim Considine, Roberta Shore, and Annette Funicello. It was the first ever Walt Disney live-action comedy. Walt Disney Productions filmed a successful sequel in 1976 called The Shaggy D.A. which starred Dean Jones, Tim Conway, and Suzanne Pleshette. This was then followed by a 1987 television sequel, a 1994 television remake and a 2006 live-action theatrical remake.