After a time, Goldie begins to reciprocate Chanticleer's feelings and tells him that his friends had come to find him. When Edmond tries to talk to Goldie about Chanticleer, she mistakes him for the bad kitty told by Pinky and chases him away. Chanticleer is immediately smitten with Goldie, but she resents him for taking the public's attention away from her. As a distraction, Edmond's idol and Chanticleer's manager, Pinky Fox (Sorrell Booke), who had been hired by the Duke to keep Chanticleer away from the farm, get a chorus singer pheasant named Goldie (Ellen Greene) to distract him. Once they reach the city, they discover Chanticleer has taken the moniker "The King" in an Elvis-style show where he sings for an audience. The Duke sends his nephew Hunch (Charles Nelson Reilly) to stop the crew from reaching the city, but Hunch fails to catch them. While the rest of the animals stay at Edmond's farm, Edmond, along with Patou, Snipes, and Peepers, sail to the city in a trunk. Edmond also meets a magpie named Snipes (Eddie Deezen) and a mouse named Peepers (Sandy Duncan), who do not believe Edmond was once a human boy, but tell him they are journeying to the city to find Chanticleer. ![]() Just as the Duke is about to devour Edmond, he is saved by Patou (Phil Harris), the basset hound who bites the Duke’s leg and Edmond drives the Duke off with a flashlight, as light is the owls' only weakness. The Duke turns Edmond into a kitten for trying to interfere with his plans. Edmond realizes that Chanticleer is the answer to the problem and yells for him, only to summon the Duke himself. When Edmond's father, Frank, calls the family to help save the farm, his mother to stay where it’s safe as She helps hold Off the storm. Edmond grows concerned when his Midwest Tennessee farm becomes flooded from the rain. The story is revealed to be a storybook that a mother named Dory (Dee Wallace) reads to her 8-year-old son, Edmond (Toby Scott Ganger). The other animals reject him and drive him out of the farm, causing a perpetual rainstorm and beginning the Grand Duke's reign of terror on the farm. Chanticleer wins but forgets to crow and the sun rises without his singing. ![]() However, one morning, Chanticleer gets in a fight with another rooster that was sent by the Grand Duke of Owls (Christopher Plummer), whose kind can't stand the sunlight. His singing keeps the other animals happy and the farm free from downpours. ![]() Chanticleer (Glen Campbell) is a proud rooster whose crowing wakes the sun up every morning (or so the other farm animals believe).
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