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Overview

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Director:
Charles Barton
Writers:
Bill Walsh (screenplay) and
Lillie Hayward (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
19 March 1959 (USA) more
Genre:
Family | Comedy | Fantasy more
Tagline:
It's dog-gone FUNNY! more
Plot:
Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inopportune... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
This was NOT Disney's first live-action feature more

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Additional Details

Runtime:
104 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.75 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Certification:
Australia:G | USA:Approved (original rating) | Canada:G (video rating) | Finland:K-8 | USA:G (re-rating) (1974) | Sweden:Btl

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Trivia:
Gregory Peck was the second choice for the role of Wilson Daniels. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Thum comes to visit Dr. Andrassy at his home, Dr. Andrassy seems a little surprised and tells him, "I told you never to come here at night." At the end of the scene, Dr. Andrassy says to Thum that he'll seem him at the doctor's home again the following night at 8:00pm, even though at the beginning of the scene he told him never to go to his house at night. more
Quotes:
Buzz Miller: Hey, Wilby, what is it this time?
Wilby Daniels: What about the seven bucks I loaned you?
Buzz Miller: What about it?
Wilby Daniels: Cough it up. Pop pulled the plug on my allowance.
Buzz Miller: Gee, pal, I'd like to help you out, but you know how it is. I've got a date with Allison.
Wilby Daniels: I'm sick and tired of financing your romances.
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Soundtrack:
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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
This was NOT Disney's first live-action feature, 22 April 2006
Author: BijouBob8mm from United States

The "Wild & Woolly" DVD edition of 1959's THE SHAGGY DOG (and some product reviews and posts found here) claim this film is the "first live action movie ever produced by Walt Disney!" I guess all those other live action features Walt produced PRIOR to THE SHAGGY DOG (such as 1957's OLD YELLER or 1954's Academy Award-winning 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, among others) didn't count? (One comment posted here stated that 20,000 LEAGUES, like TREASURE ISLAND, was one of the films done for Disney in England because of studio funds tied up there. Not true; when not filming on location, 20,000 LEAGUES was shot on the sound stages at the Disney Studio in California...information supplied to me by the studio while I was researching & writing a magazine article on the making of the film.) I can see how some reviewers might make such a mistake, but for the claim to appear on the packaging that was approved by the Disney staff takes some serious explaining. (As does the differences in running time for the two versions of the film, with the B&W version being the full cut of the movie, while the colorized version is missing about 10 minutes of material.) Don't get me wrong,this is a great comedy and well worth having...it just deserved a bit better treatment for its fans.

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