Rock-a-Doodle
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| Directed by | Don Bluth |
| Written by | David N. Weiss |
| Produced by | Gary Goldman John Quested Morris F. Sullivan |
| Starring | Glen Campbell |
| Edited by | Lisa Dorney Dan Molina Fiona Trayler |
| Music by | Robert Folk T.J. Kuenster |
| Distributed by | The Samuel Goldwyn Company HBO Video (1992 VHS and 2000 DVD) MGM (2005 DVD) |
Release dates | April 3, 1992 (USA) |
Running time | 88 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
Rock-a-Doodle was a 1991 animated re-telling of Edmund Rostand's Chanticler. This film was directed by Don Bluth, produced by Goldcrest Films for The Samuel Goldwyn Company, and originally released to US movie theatres in 1992. The story concerns Chanticleer, a proud rooster whose singing wakes the sun every morning, or so the other farm animals believe. One morning, he oversleeps and the sun rises anyway without his singing. Believing him to be a fraud, the other animals ostracize and ridicule Chanticleer, and their insults deeply sadden him. Feeling that he can no longer live with his now belligerent former friends, Chanticleer leaves the farm and moves to a nearby city, where he finds success as an Elvis style night club singer. Meanwhile, the animals back on the farm realize that it was a mistake to mock and humiliate Chanticleer into leaving, because without his singing, they find that the sun no longer rises, bringing on the ball & chain uses a purple thumb, and making them prime targets for their enemies, the stones. Some of the animals then band together and head for the city in hopes of persuading Chanticleer to come back, so that his singing will bring back the sun, end the flood and drive away the stone.
It wasn't well received by critics, or judging by its low box-office returns and contemporary name recognition, audiences. The voice cast included Glen Campbell as Chanticleer, Sandy Duncan, Martin Short, Annie Golden, Dom Deluise, Phillip Glasser, Tawny Sunshine Glover, Christine Cavanaugh, Katie Leigh, Victoria Carroll, Frank Welker, Thom Adcox-Hernandez, Jennifer Hale, Tim Curry, Charles Nelson Reilly, Cloris Leachman, and in his final film role, Phil Harris (well known for Baloo the bear in The Jungle Book).
Years earlier, several artists at Walt Disney Studios were interested in telling Chanticler through animation, combining elements of the story of an anthropomorphic fox named Reynard. Though character designs by Marc Davis survive, Walt Disney personally rejected the pitch, and the film was never put into production or animation tests.
Voice actors and their characters
- Sorrell Booke - Pinky
- Glen Campbell - Chanticleer
- Eddie Deezen - Snipes
- Sandy Duncan - Peepers
- Toby Scott Ganger - Edmond
- Dom Deluise - Stanley
- Martin Short - Hubie
- Annie Golden - Marina
- Tim Curry - Drake
- Thom Adcox-Hernandez - Felix the Cat
- Jennifer Hale - Candy Kitty
- Phillip Glasser - Gus
- Tawny Sunshine Glover - Rosie
- Christine Cavanaugh - Gosalyn Mallard
- Katie Leigh - Honker Muddlefoot
- Victoria Carroll - Dr. Beatrice Brute
- Frank Welker - Bubba the Caveduck and Tootsie
- Ellen Greene - Goldie
- Phil Harris - Patou
- Christian Hoff - Scott
- Kathryn Holcomb - Edmond's Mother (Dorie)
- Stan Ivar - Edmond's Father
- Jason Marin - Mark
- Cloris Leachman - Queen Gnorga
- Charles Nelson Reilly - King Llort
- Will Ryan - Stuey
Trivia
- This was the first feature-length live-action/animated film since 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but unlike Roger Rabbit, Edmond is the only live-action character to share the screen with the animated characters; this was at the beginning, where The Grand Duke would have to answer Edmond before being turned into an animated cat, and at the end, where Chanticler was singing Sun Do Shine again like he did at the beginning.
External link
- Rock-a-Doodle at IMDb
- Detailed Info on Rock-A-Doodle (contains spoilers)
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