Footrot Flats

In Murray Ball's iconic cartoon strips - and now in the animated feature film - the day-to-day events of Footrot Flats are chronicled by an extremely intelligent dog with a great sense of his own worth. He is simply known as "Dog...

New Zealand Production

Feature 1986 Animation 85.00 minutes

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The animated story of the Dog and his friends and enemies. Footrot Flats is the archetypal farming community that everyone knows exists somewhere.

Directors

Murray Ball

Producers

Murray Ball

Pat Cox

John Barnett

Screenplay Writers

Tom Scott

Cast

Peter Rowley
Dog

John Clarke
Wal

Dorothy McKegg
Aunt Dolly

Rawiri Paratene
Rangi

Fiona Samuel
Cheeky Hobson/Pongo

Peter Hayden
Cooch/Irish Murphy

Billy T James
Pawai

Marshall Napier
Hunk Murphy

Brian Sargent
Spit Murphy

Crew

Dave Dobbyn | Composer

Chris Burt | Sound

Mike Horton | Editor

Gethin Creagh | Sound

Chris Hampson | Voice Production

Dennis Jones | Editor

John Mckay | Sound

Ken Saville | Sound

Tom Scott | Writer

Robert Smit | Animation

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