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Release Date: 1982

Cast: Christopher Benjamin, Warren Mitchell, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Brian Stirner, Geoffrey Mathews, Judy Geeson, Nigel Hawthorne, John Franklyn-Robbins, Malcolm Terris, John Bennett, James Bolam, Patrick Stewart ...MORE

Cast: Christopher Benjamin, Warren Mitchell, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Brian Stirner, Geoffrey Mathews, Judy Geeson, Nigel Hawthorne, John Franklyn-Robbins, Malcolm Terris, John Bennett, James Bolam, Patrick Stewart, Bill Maynard, Penelope Lee, Bernard Hepton, John Hurt ...LESS

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The Plague Dogs is a 1982 animated film based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Richard Adams. The film was written-for-screen, directed and produced by Martin Rosen, who also directed Watership Down, the film version of another novel by Adams, produced by Nepenthe Productions and released by United Artists, in 1982. The film was rated PG-13 by the MPAA for violent images and thematic elements. The film's story is centered on two dogs named Rowf and Snitter, who escape from a research laboratory in Great Britain. In the process of telling the story, the film highlights the cruelty of... MORE

The Plague Dogs is a 1982 animated film based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Richard Adams. The film was written-for-screen, directed and produced by Martin Rosen, who also directed Watership Down, the film version of another novel by Adams, produced by Nepenthe Productions and released by United Artists, in 1982. The film was rated PG-13 by the MPAA for violent images and thematic elements. The film's story is centered on two dogs named Rowf and Snitter, who escape from a research laboratory in Great Britain. In the process of telling the story, the film highlights the cruelty of performing vivisection and animal research for its own sake (though Martin Rosen said that this was not an anti-vivisection film, but an adventure), an idea that was only recently coming to public attention during the 1960s and 1970s. Rowf (a Labrador-mix) and Snitter (a smooth fox terrier) are two of many dogs used for experimental purposes at an animal research facility in the Lake District of north-western England. Snitter has had his brain experimented upon while Rowf has been drowned and resuscitated repeatedly. One evening, Snitter squeezes under his cage and into Rowf's, where they discover LESS