Rock-a-Doodle is a 1991 animated re-telling of Geoffry Chaucer's Chanticleer and Edmond Rostand's comedy, Chantecler. This film was directed by Don Bluth, produced by Goldcrest Films for The Samuel Goldwyn Company, and originally released in the United Kingdom on 2 August 1991 and in the United States on 3 April 1992.
The title comes from the film's theme song, which is a pun on "cock a doodle (doo)" and a parody of "Rock-A-Hula Baby", sung by El...
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Rock-a-Doodle is a 1991 animated re-telling of Geoffry Chaucer's Chanticleer and Edmond Rostand's comedy, Chantecler. This film was directed by Don Bluth, produced by Goldcrest Films for The Samuel Goldwyn Company, and originally released in the United Kingdom on 2 August 1991 and in the United States on 3 April 1992.
The title comes from the film's theme song, which is a pun on "cock a doodle (doo)" and a parody of "Rock-A-Hula Baby", sung by Elvis Presley in his 1961 movie Blue Hawaii.
Chanticleer (Glen Campbell) is a proud rooster whose singing wakes the sun every morning, or so the other farm animals believe. His singing keeps the other animals happy, and the farm free from downpours. However, one morning, Chanticleer is attacked by a rooster sent by the "Grand Duke of Owls" (Christopher Plummer). Chanticleer wins but forgets to crow, and the sun rises without his singing. The other animals reject him and drive him out of the farm, causing a perpetual rainstorm and the beginning...
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