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Bookmark this pageThe Shaggy D.A. (1976)
Director: Robert Stevenson
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Some of Stevenson's Disney entertainments have been very polished and respectable, but not this mess. The sieve-like script tries to mix together Dean Jones' would-be district attorney turning into a lolloping dog (not once but repeatedly), some satire of electioneering and crooked politics, a slap-up pie fight, jokes about Dean Martin and Sarah Bernhardt, satire of ladies' clubs and other small-town Americana, police cars skidding on ice-cream fillings, dogs who talk with Bogart and Cagney voices. Nothing jells at all - least of all the central conceit of the hero becoming shaggy (sometimes the dog's a dog, sometimes a man with fur). It's also not much fun seeing Jones, Pleshette and Wynn getting older and older, staler and staler, playing the parts they've been stuck with for years.Author: GB
Cast & crew
Director: Robert Stevenson
Producer: Bill Anderson
Cast: Dean Jones, Tim Conway, Suzanne Pleshette, Jo Anne Worley, Vic Tayback, Dick Bakalyan, Keenan Wynn, Dick Van Patten, Warren Berlinger, Hans Conreid full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 92 mins
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