Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, struggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They're pursued by search parties and then the military after rumours spread that they could be carrying the bubonic plague.
- based on novel or book
- fox
- social commentary
- dog
- adult animation
- research laboratory
- animal cruelty
- pets
- animal testing
- animal research
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
John Hurt
Snitter (voice)
Christopher Benjamin
Rowf (voice)
James Bolam
The Tod (voice)
Nigel Hawthorne
Dr. Boycott (voice)
- Warren Mitchell — Tyson / Wag (voice)
- Judy Geeson — Pekinese (voice)
- Patrick Stewart — Major (voice)
- Brian Stirner — Laboratory Assistant (voice)
- Penelope Lee — Lynn Driver (voice)
- Geoffrey Matthews — Farmer (voice)
- Barbara Leigh-Hunt — Farmer's Wife (voice)
- John Bennett — Don (voice)
- John Franklyn-Robbins — Williamson (voice)
- Bill Maynard — Editor (voice)
- Malcolm Terris — Robert (voice)
- Directed
- Martin Rosen
- Written
- Martin Rosen
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 305 ratings
- Studio
- Nepenthe Productions, Goldcrest
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
