Quaint as this animation is, I'd like to see it on a big screen. It has a kind of pastoral quality to it despite its depressing premise. Out of the frying pan, into the fire. A couple of plot points require some suspension of disbelief, but otherwise, this holds a scarring,...
The Plague Dogs 1982 · Directed by Martin Rosen
103 minPG-13
Animation / Adventure / Drama
An animated adaptation of Richard Adams' novel, about a pair of dogs (Snitter and Rowf) who escape from a research laboratory and try to survive in the wild with the help of a cunning fox (The Tod). The lab director tries to keep the escape quiet, but as an increasing number of sheep are found killed, word leaks out, together with rumors that the dogs might be plague carriers.
IMDb 7.7Tomatometer 70%
- Director
- Martin Rosen
- Writer
- Richard Adams, Martin Rosen
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I guess this came out 4 years before When the Wind Blows. They're not about the same specific issue, but they're awfully similar in animation, tone, structure, naivete, and existentialist themes. I like that film better for its more endearing dialogue & smaller scope. Too similar for a double feature, but I think they make good companion pieces of scientific angst in the 1980s as seen through their everyman victims.