Un candidat au poil

Original title: The Shaggy D.A.

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Dean Jones in Un candidat au poil (1976)

A teenage boy is cursed with periodically turning into a sheepdog.

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Slapstick Comedy Family Fantasy

Wilby Daniels, now all grown up and running for district attorney, finds himself once again turning into a shaggy dog at inopportune moments.Wilby Daniels, now all grown up and running for district attorney, finds himself once again turning into a shaggy dog at inopportune moments.Wilby Daniels, now all grown up and running for district attorney, finds himself once again turning into a shaggy dog at inopportune moments.

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IMDb RATING

5.8/10

3.6K

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Trivia
Liam Dunn died during the filming of the roller rink sequence. John Fiedler was brought in to complete the role as dog catcher.

Goofs
Two petty crooks are walking down an alley by a hotel where a pie fight is taking place. The crooks look in the window and the one wearing a hat is hit in the mouth by a pie and he wipes it off his face. The second one then gets hit in the face by a glancing blow with another pie, but when they step back both of their faces are covered and so is the jacket of the one in the hat.

Quotes
Wilby Daniels: Did you hear what I said?
Betty Daniels: Yes, I did. And we're just going to pretend that you never said it.

Connections
Edited into Doggiewoggiez! Poochiewoochiez! (2012)

Soundtracks
The Shaggy D.A.
Sung by Dean Jones
Written by Shane Tatum and Richard McKinley

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Featured review

Warning: Spoilers

Just kidding (As if anyone could not figure out-- whether they've seen the movie or not-- how it will turn out).

Like one of the other people who commented above, I was a kid (6) when this movie came out, and for some reason this is one of the movies that sticks in my mind along with Gus, Boatniks, and the '66 Batman, when I think back on the movies I saw at that age. So Shaggy DA has a built-in nostalgia factor as far as I'm concerned, and maybe for others my age, but anyone else would probably be bored to tears. The pie-fight had a little spark of energy, but watching this now mainly just serves to remind what low standards "family entertainment" had in the 70s. It's really amazing, today, to look back on this kind of stuff-- Shaggy DA, Pete's Dragon, that "Goin Cocoanuts" thing the Osmonds put out-- and think: Good Lord, was that really the best they could do?