The Shaggy D.A. is a 1976 film sequel to 1959s The Shaggy Dog produced by Walt Disney Productions. It was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Don Tait, based on the original film and inspired by the long outofprint Felix Salten novel, The Hound of Florence.
Wilby Daniels Dean Jones is now a successful attorney who is married to Betty Suzanne Pleshette, and they have a son named Brian Shane Sinutko. Returning to the town of Medfield from a vacation, the family discovers that they have been robbed of almost all their possessions, and Wilby blames the local district attorney John Slade Keenan Wynn, who is reputed to have connections with organized crime, particularly with warehouse owner Edward Fast Eddie Roshak Vic Tayback. After being robbed a second time later that night along with their Navy admiral neighbor, Gordon C. Brenner, Wilby vows to run for district attorney to make his town safe again.Meanwhile, the two thugs who had robbed the Daniels, Freddie Richard Bakalyan and Dip Warren Berlinger, observe the Borgia ring at the local museum and assume it might fetch a large sum, so they steal it. The ugly ring with a scarab on it can only be pawned off to local bumbling ice cream salesman, Tim, who is the owner of a large Old English Sheepdog named Elwood. Tim figures he will give the ring to his girlfriend Katrinka, a local roller derby star and pastry assistant. ........
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