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In 1982 director Martin Rosen followed up his critically acclaimed 1978 animated
feature Watership Down with another animated adaptation of a Richard
Adams novel, The Plague Dogs. A pair of dogs, Rowf (Christopher Benjamin)
and Snitter (John Hurt), escape from an animal research facility situated in a
remote part of the English countryside. Rowf is cynical and mistrusting of
humans, having only known the tortured existence of being a laboratory animal.
Snitter, on the other hand, had previously enjoyed life as a domestic pet and
longs to be loved and cared for by a human master once again. Unprepared for
life in the wild, the pair befriend a fox, The Tod (James Bolam), who helps them
learn to survive in the bleak environment by feeding on the area's livestock. As
the authorities attempt to track down the escapees, things take a turn for the
worse when a deliberately leaked story suggests the dogs may be infected with
the bubonic plague.
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