Rock-a-Doodle

Rock-a-Doodle
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Directed by	Don Bluth
Produced by	Don Bluth Gary Goldman John Pomeroy
Screenplay by	David N. Weiss
Story by	Don Bluth John Pomeroy David J. Steinberg David N. Weiss T.J. Kuenster Gary Goldman
Starring	Glen Campbell Eddie Deezen Sandy Duncan Ellen Greene Phil Harris Christopher Plummer Charles Nelson Reilly
Narrated by	Phil Harris
Music by	Robert Folk
Cinematography	Robert Paynter
Edited by	Lisa Dorney Dan Molina Fiona Trayler
Production company	Sullivan Bluth Studios Goldcrest Films
Distributed by	The Samuel Goldwyn Company (United States) Rank Organisation (United Kingdom)
Release date	2 August 1991 (1991-08-02) (United Kingdom) 23 August 1991 (1991-08-23) (Ireland) 3 April 1992 (1992-04-03) (United States)
Running time	75 minutes
Country	Ireland United Kingdom United States
Language	English
Budget	$18 million
Box office	$11.7 million

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Rock-a-Doodle is a 1991 live action/animated musical film loosely based on Edmond Rostand's comedy Chantecler. Directed by Don Bluth and written by David N. Weiss, Rock-a-Doodle is an Irish, British and American venture produced by Sullivan Bluth Studios and Goldcrest Films. The film features the voices of Glen Campbell, Christopher Plummer, Phil Harris (in his final role before his retirement and death), Charles Nelson Reilly, Sorrell Booke, Sandy Duncan, Eddie Deezen, Ellen Greene and Toby Scott Ganger in his film debut. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 2 August 1991, and in the United States on 3 April 1992.

Chanticleer is a rooster, whose job is to wake the sun up every morning, but the Grand Duke of Owls, who hates sunshine, sabotages him to make it look like the sun comes up on its own without Chanticleer's crow. Detested by the farm animals as a result, he leaves the farm to look for work in the city. Afterward, perpetual darkness and rainfall threaten the farm with flooding.

Turning out to be a story read to a young human boy named Edmond, it seems that the flooding has found his family, and when his mother goes to help them stop it, he calls out to Chanticleer and is heard by the Grand Duke himself, who takes a dislike to Edmond's attempts to foil his plans. He turns him into a kitten to devour him, but he is saved at the last second by Patou, a bloodhound from Chanticleer's farm. He is accompanied by Snipes, a claustrophobic magpie, and Peepers, an intellectual field mouse, as well as several animals from the farm, hoping to find Chanticleer and apologise to him for their behaviour. Edmond accompanies Patou, Snipes and Peepers to the city, while the rest of the animals remain at Edmond's house. En route, they are attacked by Hunch, the Duke's diminutive nephew, assigned by him to stop Edmond and the others from finding Chanticleer. They narrowly escape and enter the city.