FREE THE PLAGUE DOGS PDF Richard Adams | 390 pages | 28 Nov 2006 | Random House USA Inc | 9780345494023 | English | New York, United States The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams The Plague Dogs is a British-American animated adventure film The Plague Dogs, based on the novel of the same name by Richard Adams. It was written, directed and produced by Martin Rosenwho also directed Watership Downthe film adaptation of another novel by Adams. The film was rated PG by the MPAA for heavy animal cruelty themes, violent imagery, and emotionally distressing scenes. The film's 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 though Rosen said that this was not an anti- vivisection film, but an adventurean idea that had only recently come to public attention during the s—70s. 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 Plague Dogs 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 the netting of his cage and into Rowf's, where they discover his cage is unlatched. They explore the facility in order to escape until they sneak into the incineratorwhere they are nearly killed before finally escaping. Initially relieved and eager to experience their new freedom, the dogs are soon faced not only with the realities of life in the wild but with another more terrifying realization—they are being hunted by their former captors. They come to reluctantly befriend Tod, a Geordie The Plague Dogs foxin The Plague Dogs to obtain food in the wild - they initially hunt domestic sheep grazing on the local hills. Snitter hopes for a new home as he once had a master, but after accidentally killing a man by stepping onto the trigger of his shotgun as he climbs up onto him, Snitter loses hope. As time passes the two dogs grow emaciated, having to steal more and more food while still avoiding capture. The Tod assists them by distracting a lab-hired gunman who then falls to his death. As the three wander about aimlessly, the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment and the media are roped into the pursuit, driven by rumors of the two dogs carrying bubonic plague and murdering humans and sheep. The Tod parts with the two dogs as The Plague Dogs pursuers close in, telling them he's got "a few more tricks" up his sleeve, where he is quickly caught and seemingly killed. Thanks to the fox's distraction, Snitter and Rowf manage to sneak onto a train on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway. The train arrives at The Plague Dogs coastal village of Ravenglass where the two dogs are spotted by an RAF The Plague Dogs King helicopter and are pursued by it until they reach the shoreline and can run no The Plague Dogs. As armed troops approach and prepare to shoot the dogs, Snitter looks out over the water and claims to see an island The Plague Dogs he jumps into the sea and begins to swim to it. Two gunshots are fired at the dogs but seemingly miss; immediately a white mist envelops the pair, and the humans and the The Plague Dogs disappear. The dogs swim through the mist towards the island Snitter claims to see but Rowf can't spot, until, at last, Snitter begins to have doubts as to "if there is any island" and he stops paddling, losing hope. Rowf, however, claims to finally spot the island and urges Snitter to continue. The dogs swim onwards through the mist, and their fate is left ambiguous. The silhouette of an island is shown during the credits. The film was animated in both Britain and San FranciscoCalifornia between and The theme song, "Time and Tide", was composed and sung by Alan Price. The song, as well as dialogue The Plague Dogs the film, was sampled by the Canadian industrial group Skinny Puppy for their anti-vivisection single The Plague Dogs, " Testure ", from their album VIVIsectVI. The film had a test screening in Seattle on 17 December Rosen had difficulty in finding distributors for the film, and it entered a limited release in the U. He varies the scenery and the camera angles imaginatively [ Rosen's direction is quite ingenious, much more so than Mr. Adams's story. Jake Eberts who helped finance this and Watership Down thought the filmmakers made two errors: the film was downbeat with an unhappy ending, unlike the The Plague Dogs, and was made without a distributor an arrangement was made with Embassy but then the filmmakers wanted to re-negotiate and Embassy pulled out while United Artists became the film's UK distributor. There are two versions of the film: An The Plague Dogs version and a minute version. While many of the missing scenes in the 86 minute cut were mostly removed to reduce running time, one scene taken from the book was removed because of its shocking content: After the hired gunman Ackland falls to his death from a steep crag from which he was attempting to shoot the dogs, a military helicopter flies over the snow-covered crags and valleys and the soldiers in the helicopter find the body ripped to shreds, implying that the starving dogs had eaten the corpse. The original VHS release of the The Plague Dogs theatrical cut of the film was released by Thorn Productions in Only around 8, copies of this version were made. Soon afterwards, the Dutch budget label, Indies Home Entertainment, released a Region 2 disc which also contained the US cut The Plague Dogs includes forced Dutch subtitles. Trinity Home Enterainment released their DVD in the United States the same year; Trinity tried to get the full cut, but when they were unable to obtain it, they ended up settling with using the truncated US version. InAustralian distributor Umbrella Entertainment, released the full theatrical cut of the film as well as the truncated version on Region 4 DVD they also released the full theatrical cut of Watership Downsourced from Martin Rosen 's private print. This was probably the only full cut of the film in existence aside from the rare Thorn and Warner Home Video VHSes and the original master. InShout! Factory announced that they had acquired the rights to the film in the United States, and that they would release the film for the first time on Blu-ray on 24 February under the Shout Selects. Factory The Plague Dogs that The Plague Dogs had delayed the film's Blu-Ray release to work with director Martin Rosen in hopes of releasing the original minute version of the film instead of the minute version. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the animated film. For the novel, see The Plague Dogs. Theatrical release poster. Martin Rosen Animation: Tony Guy. Release date. Running time. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. November Learn how and when to remove this template message. My indecision is final. The Plague Dogs and Faber. The Plague Dogs Animated Movie Guide. Chicago Review The Plague Dogs. The Horror Section. 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Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams. Wikiquote has quotations related to: The Plague Dogs film. Plague in Dogs: Here's What You MUST Know Build up your Halloween Watchlist with our list of the most popular horror titles on Netflix in October. See the list. 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 The Plague Dogs 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. Richard Adams's The Plague Dogs 'The Plague Dogs' always stood in the shadow of his superior masterpiece - the classic 'Watership Down'. The same goes for the animated films, both of them directed by Martin Rosen.