The Plague Dogs

• Movie

  Type

• 1982

  Year

• 1h 43m

  Runtime

• ★ 7.8

  Rating

• Adventure / Animation / Drama

  Genre

The Plague Dogs is a 1982 animated film based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Richard Adams. The story is centred 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.

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Cast

John Hurt

Snitter (voice)

Christopher Benjamin

Rowf (voice)

James Bolam

The Tod (voice)

Nigel Hawthorne

Dr. Boycott (voice)

Warren Mitchell

Tyson / Wag (voice)

Judy Geeson

Pekinese (voice)

Patrick Stewart

Major (voice)

Brian Stirner

Laboratory Assistant (voice)

Penelope Lee

Lynn Driver (voice)

Geoffrey Matthews

Farmer (voice)

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Farmer's Wife (voice)

John Bennett

Don (voice)