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The Plague Dogs

Duration:

103 min | West Germany:82 min (TV version)

Genres:

Animation | Adventure | Drama

IMDB rate:

7.9

Director:

Martin Rosen

Details

Country: UK

Cast

Actor

Character

Judy Geeson

John Hurt

Snitter

Christopher Benjamin

Rowf

James Bolam

The Tod

Nigel Hawthorne

Dr. Boycott

Warren Mitchell

Tyson

Bernard Hepton

Stephen Powell

Brian Stirner

Laboratory Assistant (voice)

Penelope Lee

Lynn Driver (voice)

Geoffrey Matthews

Farmer (voice) (as Geoffrey Mathews)

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Farmer's Wife (voice)

John Bennett

Don (voice)

John Franklyn-Robbins

Williamson (voice)

Bill Maynard

Editor (voice)

Malcolm Terris

Robert (voice)

Philip Locke

Civil Servant #1 (voice)

Brian Spink

Civil Servant #2 (voice)

Tony Church

Civil Servant #3 (voice)

Anthony Valentine

Civil Servant #4 (voice)

William Lucas

Civil Servant #5 (voice)

Dandy Nichols

Phyllis (voice)

Rosemary Leach

Vera (voice)

Patrick Stewart

Major (voice)

Percy Edwards

Animal Vocalization (voice)

Did you know?

Trivia

Jeremy Irons originally read for the part of Rowf.

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Only 8000 copies were released as first-run VHS.

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The end of the movie is considerably more grim than the one in the book. Snitter's owner is alive in the book, and saves him and Rowf from the military after a fishing boat picks them up. The monkey in the isolation chamber is also saved in the book.

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Quotes

Soldier: It's a fox, sir! They've got a bloody fox! Is this interesting? Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Snitter: Look out there! It's our island. Don't you see it? That's where we have to go. We can be free.

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Rowf: We're not about to die!

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Snitter: Have you ever thought, Rowf... that we won't need food when we're dead? Or names for that matter... I wonder who the buzzards will like best... You, or me... I hope you make sure we're properly dead before you start, old rip-beak!

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Faq

How does it end?

The ending is deliberately left ambiguous. The dogs flee out to sea ahead of the military, believing they see an island ahead of them. As they near the end of their strength, one begins to say he can't see anything while the other still insists he can see the island. Then the dogs swim out of the frame and fade into the mist, and the credits roll. The mist then clears to reveal an island, but the song (done in Gospel style) is about leaving this troubled world behind and going to Heaven.

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