Dudley Do-Right

Dudley Do-Right (1999)

He's dedicated. He's honest. He's a Mountie who always gets his man...well, almost always.

Royal Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-right is busy keeping the peace in his small mountain town when his old rival, Snidely Whiplash, comes up with a plot to buy all the property in town, then start a phony gold rush by seeding the river with gold nuggets.

Date of release
1999-08-27
TMDB
4.1 / 10 (212)
Runtime
1h 17m
Genres
Comedy, Family, Romance
Director
Hugh Wilson

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Vancouver

Dudley Do-Right is a 1999 American slapstick comedy film written and directed by Hugh Wilson, based on Jay Ward's Dudley Do-Right, produced by Davis Entertainment for Universal Studios. The film stars Brendan Fraser as the cartoon's titular Mountie with supporting roles from Sarah Jessica Parker, Alfred Molina, and Eric Idle. It was released on August 27, 1999. The film was a critical and commercial failure.

Production

Hugh Wilson was signed to write and direct the film in July 1997 for a fee of $5 million.

The film was shot on-site in Quebec, Canada's Montreal and Quebec City. Additional filming scenes were in Santa Clarita, California in fall 1998.

Dudley Do-Right was Fraser's second film based on a Jay Ward cartoon, 1997's George of the Jungle being the first. Despite the different studios producing each film (George of the Jungle was adapted by Walt Disney Pictures), advertising for the Dudley Do-Right film made open reference to this coincidence: "From the creator of George of the Jungle…and the star of George of the Jungle…and the acclaimed director who saw George of the Jungle…"

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