The Shaggy Dog (1959 film)

The Shaggy Dog is a blackandwhite 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. This was Walt Disneys first liveaction comedy.

Wilbur Wilby Daniels is a boy who is misunderstood by his father, Wilson. Wilson thinks Wilby is crazy half the time because of his elder sons often dangerous inventions. As a retired mailman who often ran afoul of canines, he is allergic to dogs, and he simply cannot understand why his younger son, Montgomery Moochie would want a dog.Wilby and his rival Buzz Miller go with a French girl named Francesca Andrass to the local museum. Wilby gets separated from the other two, who leave without him. Wilby encounters former acquaintance Professor Plumcutt whose newspaper Wilby used to deliver, who tells him all about mystical ancient beliefs, including the legend of the Borgia family, who used shapeshifting as a weapon against their enemies. ........

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