Fresh
There are a good many laughs on this simple premise and the script's exploitation of them.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Shaggy Dog
"I was a Teen-age boy!"
1959 · 1h 44m · Approved
Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Directed by
Charles Barton
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....
Director and cast
- Charles Barton Director
- Fred MacMurray as Wilson Daniels
- Jean Hagen as Freeda Daniels
- Tommy Kirk as Wilby Daniels
- Annette Funicello as Allison D'Allessio
- Tim Considine as Buzz Miller
- Kevin Corcoran as Moochie (Montgomery) Daniels
- Cecil Kellaway as Professor Plumcutt
- Alexander Scourby as Dr. Mikhail Andrassy
- Roberta Shore as Franceska Andrassy
- James Westerfield as Officer Hanson
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
68%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Brisk but unrewarding.
Howard Thompson, New York Times
Rotten
This 1959 film was Disney's first live-action comedy; it isn't good, but it's certainly mythic.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten
Unhappily, Producer Walt Disney tells his shaggy-dog story so doggedly that he soon runs it into the pound.
TIME Magazine
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