The Shaggy Dog (1959 film)

The eerie Zotti ( Original title: The Shaggy Dog ) is an American fantasy film from 1959 directed by Charles Barton and produced by Walter Disney.

Action

The 14 -year-old Wilby happens to find an antique ring in front of a museum. When he pronounce the Latin inscription on the ring loudly, he suddenly turns into a dog. Panicking, he rushes to the museum to look at the all-knowing professor Plumcutt for a way out. In vain, caught in the dog's body makes all kinds of Wilby with: He is chased, hunted and hated.

Background

In the late 1950s, the idea of a grown man who turns into a monster nothing new, but the idea that this cycle again drives a teenager, was again a new pattern, called Avant -Garde was. The eerie Zotti is based on its successful predecessor with Fred MacMurrays classic cut of a dialogue: " Do not be silly - My son is not a werewolf! He 's just a big, flabby, stupid -looking, shaggy dog ".

The film was intended as a pilot for a recent television series as "the funniest shaggy dog ​​story ever told ," although it is not a story this genre. The director Charles Balton led, among other things, directed the film Spin and Marty for The Mickey Mouse Club. Screenwriter Lillie Hayward also worked at the spinning -and- Marty- series, which includes many of the same young actors of The eerie Zotti.

Disney voice actor Paul Frees had a cameo appearance in the film - for which he was not listed in the credits - as Dr. JW Galvin, a psychiatrist who Wilbys father studied.

Sequels and remakes

Continuations

  • The first sequel to the film called Zotti, the Urviech from 1976 with Dean Jones in the lead role.
  • In 1987, a two-part television movie, The Return of Shaggy Dog, aired.

Remakes

Review

The film received on the website Rotten Tomatoes from critics of the page a score of 67%, 47% of the viewers and thus a total of 5.8 / 10. The eerie Zotti also is one of the best films of 1959.

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