Watership Down (Animated) (DVD)

Watership Down (1978) 93 minutes Dir: Matin Rosen Voices: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Michael Graham Cox, Ralph Richardson The book of this provided one of my fondest memories of school. Fourth year English with Mr Doyle: he introduced us to Shakespeare which I REALLY couldn’t get my head around. However, Watership Down was another matter: a story about rabbits escaping from their warren, suffering hardship on their travels and finally arriving in ...
...this turns out to be Watership Down: a hill he spies from afar. However, once they arrive it seems like a hollow victory. Hazel and his troop have no does amongst their number. No does, means no kits which means the new burrow will die out… So the search begins for females to join the group. Hazel leads an unsuccessful effort to free some captured white rabbits from the local Nuthanger farm – being nearly mauled by a cat and shot by a farmer in the ...

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A film about survivors, rabbits have a thousand enemies, their suvival is threatened at every turn, but in the end there determination wins through. This film is a story of a group of rabbits searching for a safer place to live. One rabbit Fiver has a vision of great danger and persudes some of his fellow rabbits to leave their warren and search for a safer home. The rabbits face many dangers along the way. Some of these dangers include a dark ...
...and a stream they must cross. Along the way they meet some rabbits from another warren, but it is not as good as it seems, the rabbits have to battle against the rabbits of Efrefa and its mighty leader. The rabbits are aided by some other animals (whether knowingly or not) including the fantastic Kehaar (a seagull). This character also add some comic relief to the film. Eventually the rabbits arrive at a place of safety where the circle of life ...

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