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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