The Shaggy Dog
"I was a Teen-age boy!"
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
- Charles Barton
- Signature
- Wonder · Craft · Humour
- Worldwide
- $18M
Who's in it
Cast
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16 billed performers
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What It's About
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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....
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
The Shaggy Dog returned 14.1× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $1M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $18M
- Release date
- Mar 19, 1959
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English, French
- Country
- United States of America
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