The Plague Dogs is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on December 1983
Description[]
Richard Adams's best-seller from the team who brought you Watership Down
A fox terrier and a black labrador succeed in escaping from an animal research station in the Lake District where they have been subjected to cruel experiments in the name of science. Out on the rugged fells they attempt to survive, wild and free. But they must run for their lives when it is rumoured that they are carriers of the plague, for a hunt has begun. Once again Martin Rosen brings together the skilled team of animators who made Watership Down, whose unsentimental approach realistically creates the pain of an animal Auschwitz, the beauty of the Lakes, and the smelly; doggy world the "heroes" inhabit. A powerful tale from one of today's best storytellers.
Cast[]
- John Hurt as Snitter
- Christopher Benjamin as Rowf
- James Bolam as The Tod
- Nigel Hawthorne as Dr. Boycott
- Warren Mitchell as Harry Tyson / Wag
- Bernard Hepton as Stephen Powell
- Brian Stirner as Laboratory Assistant
- Penelope Lee as Lynn Driver
- Geoffrey Matthews as Farmer
- Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Farmer's Wife
- John Bennett as Don
- John Franklyn-Robbins as Dennis Williamson
- Bill Maynard as Editor
- Malcolm Terris as Robert Lindsay
- Judy Geeson as Pekingese
- Philip Locke as Civil Servant #1
- Brian Spink as Civil Servant #2
- Tony Church as Civil Servant #3
- Anthony Valentine as Civil Servant #4
- William Lucas as Civil Servant #5
- Dandy Nichols as Phyllis Dawson
- Rosemary Leach as Vera Dawson
- Patrick Stewart as Major John Awdry
- Percy Edwards as Animal Vocalization