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Released
1982 · FILM

The Plague Dogs

“Escape to a different world...and share the adventure of a lifetime.”

Directed by
Martin Rosen
Written by
Richard Adams, Martin Rosen
Runtime
86 min
AdventureAnimationDrama

Synopsis

Rowf and Snitter, two dogs who have escaped from an animal research laboratory, find themselves struggling to survive in the countryside. As they attempt to evade capture, search parties are deployed to track them down. The situation escalates when rumors emerge suggesting the dogs may be carrying the bubonic plague, prompting the military to become involved in the pursuit.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Richard HarknessScored by Patrick GleesonDesigned by Gordon Harrison

Box Office

1982 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$423K

Budget$1.2M
Worldwide gross$423K
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Die Hunde sind losde
  • La plaga de perroses

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