Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, stuggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They are pursued by search parties and then the military after rumors spread that they could be carrying the bubonic plague.

• United Artists
• Nepenthe Productions
• John Hurt
• Christopher Benjamin
• James Bolam
• Nigel Hawthorne
• Warren Mitchell
• Judy Geeson
• Patrick Stewart
• Brian Stirner