Download The Plague Dogs Video

Directed by Martin Rosen. With John Hurt, Christopher Benjamin, James Bolam, Nigel Hawthorne. Two dogs escape from a laboratory and are hunted as possible carriers of the bubonic plague.

The Plague Dogs is the third novel by Richard Adams, author of Watership Down, about two dogs who escape an animal testing facility and are subsequently pursued by both the government and the media. It was first published in 1977, and features a few location maps drawn by Alfred Wainwright, a fellwalker and author.