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Watership Down (film)

Index Watership Down (film)

Watership Down is a 1978 British animated adventure-drama film written, produced and directed by Martin Rosen and based on the novel of the same name by Richard Adams. [1]

73 relations: Adventure film, Afterlife, Ambush, Angela Morley, Animation, Anthropomorphism, Art Garfunkel, Black-headed gull, Bright Eyes (Art Garfunkel song), British Board of Film Classification, British Film Institute, CIC Video, Cinema International Corporation, Clairvoyance, Clifton Jones, Death (personification), Denholm Elliott, Derek Griffiths, Dolby Laboratories, Drama (film and television), Embassy Pictures, Filmways, Future Film, Gerard Jones, Guild Home Video, Hampshire, Hannah Gordon, Harry Andrews, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Hutch (animal cage), Janus Films, Japanese language, John Bennett (actor), John Hubley, John Hurt, Joss Ackland, Lapine language, Lynn Farleigh, Malcolm Williamson, Martin Rosen (director), Michael Graham Cox, Michael Hordern, Mike Batt, Nigel Hawthorne, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Ralph Richardson, Richard Adams, Richard Briers, Richard O'Callaghan, Roadshow Entertainment, ..., Rotten Tomatoes, Roy Kinnear, Shotgun shell, Simon Cadell, Suomi-Filmi, Terence Rigby, Terry Rawlings, The Criterion Collection, The Plague Dogs (film), Thorn EMI, Total Film, Trance, Trapping, Umbrella Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Home Video, Watership Down, Watership Down (TV series), Watership Down, Hampshire, Zero Mostel. Expand index (23 more) »

Adventure film

Adventure films are a genre of film that typically use their action scenes to display and explore exotic locations in an energetic way.

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Afterlife

Afterlife (also referred to as life after death or the hereafter) is the belief that an essential part of an individual's identity or the stream of consciousness continues to manifest after the death of the physical body.

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Ambush

An ambush is a long-established military tactic in which combatants take advantage of concealment and the element of surprise to attack unsuspecting enemy combatants from concealed positions, such as among dense underbrush or behind hilltops.

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Angela Morley

Angela Morley (born Walter "Wally" Stott, 10 March 192414 January 2009) was an English composer and conductor who, as Stott, became a familiar household name to BBC radio listeners in the 1950s.

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Animation

Animation is a dynamic medium in which images or objects are manipulated to appear as moving images.

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Anthropomorphism

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities.

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Art Garfunkel

Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941) is an American singer, poet, math teacher and actor.

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Black-headed gull

The black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) is a small gull that breeds in much of Europe and Asia, and also in coastal eastern Canada.

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Bright Eyes (Art Garfunkel song)

"Bright Eyes" is a song written by Mike Batt and performed by Art Garfunkel.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), previously the British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organization, founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public Information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom.

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CIC Video

CIC Video was a home video distributor, established in 1981, owned by Cinema International Corporation (the forerunner of United International Pictures), and operated in some countries (such as United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, South Korea, Turkey, Argentina, Colombia, Philippines, Chile and Venezuela) by local operators.

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Cinema International Corporation

Cinema International Corporation (CIC) was a film distribution company started by Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures in the early 1970s to distribute the 2 studios' films outside the United States – it even operated in Canada before it was considered part of the "domestic" market.

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Clairvoyance

Clairvoyance (from French clair meaning "clear" and voyance meaning "vision") is the alleged ability to gain information about an object, person, location, or physical event through extrasensory perception.

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Clifton Jones

Clifton Jones (born 26 July 1937, St. Andrew, Jamaica) is an actor known for his roles in British television.

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Death (personification)

Death, due to its prominent place in human culture, is frequently imagined as a personified force, also known as the Grim Reaper.

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Denholm Elliott

Denholm Mitchell Elliott, CBE (31 May 1922 – 6 October 1992) was an English actor, with more than 120 film and television credits.

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Derek Griffiths

Derek Griffiths (born 15 July 1946) is a British actor who appeared in numerous British children's television series in the 1960s to present and has more recently played parts in TV drama.

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Dolby Laboratories

Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (often shortened to Dolby Labs) is a British-American company specializing in audio noise reduction and audio encoding/compression.

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Drama (film and television)

In reference to film and television, drama is a genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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Embassy Pictures

Embassy Pictures Corporation (also and later known as AVCO Embassy Pictures as well as Embassy Films Associates) was an American independent film production and distribution studio responsible for such films as Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, The Graduate, The Lion in Winter, Carnal Knowledge, The Night Porter, Phantasm, The Fog, Prom Night, Scanners, The Howling, Escape from New York, and This Is Spinal Tap.

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Filmways

Filmways, Inc. (also known as Filmways Pictures and Filmways Television) was a television and film production company founded by American film executive Martin Ransohoff, and Edwin Kasper in 1952.

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Future Film

Future Film Ltd (Future Film Oy) is a Finnish-based home-video distribution company headquartered in Vaasa.

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Gerard Jones

Gerard Jones (born July 10, 1957) is an American writer, known primarily for his non-fiction and comic book work.

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Guild Home Video

Guild Home Video (GHV) or Guild Film Distribution was one of the very first video distribution companies to start operating in the UK.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated Hants) is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom.

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Hannah Gordon

Hannah Campbell Grant Gordon, Film reference website (born 9 April 1941) is a British actress who is well known in the United Kingdom for her television work, including My Wife Next Door (1972), Upstairs, Downstairs (1974–75), Telford's Change (1979), Joint Account (1989–90) and an appearance in the final episode of One Foot in the Grave.

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Harry Andrews

Harry Fleetwood Andrews, CBE (10 November 1911 – 6 March 1989) was an English actor known for his film portrayals of tough military officers.

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Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation

The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation is given each year for theatrical films, television episodes, or other dramatized works related to science fiction or fantasy released in the previous calendar year.

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Hutch (animal cage)

A hutch is a type of cage used typically for housing domestic rabbits.

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Janus Films

Janus Films is an American film distribution company.

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Japanese language

is an East Asian language spoken by about 128 million people, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language.

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John Bennett (actor)

John David Bennett (8 May 1928 – 11 April 2005) was an English actor.

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John Hubley

John Hubley (May 21, 1914 – February 21, 1977) was an American animation director, art director, producer and writer of traditional animation films known for both his formal experimentation and for his emotional realism which stemmed from his tendency to cast his own children as voice actors in his films.

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John Hurt

Sir John Vincent Hurt (22 January 1940 – 25 January 2017) was an English actor whose screen and stage career spanned more than 50 years.

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Joss Ackland

Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland, CBE (born 29 February 1928) is an English actor who has appeared in more than 130 film and television roles.

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Lapine language

Lapine is a fictional language created by author Richard Adams for his 1972 novel Watership Down, where it is spoken by rabbit characters.

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Lynn Farleigh

Lynn Farleigh (born 3 December 1942) is an English actress of stage and screen.

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Malcolm Williamson

Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson, AO, CBE (21 November 19312 March 2003) was an Australian composer.

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Martin Rosen (director)

Martin Rosen (born 1936) is an American-born British filmmaker and theater producer.

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Michael Graham Cox

Michael Graham Cox (6 January 1938 – 8 April 1995) was an English actor.

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Michael Hordern

Sir Michael Murray Hordern, CBE (3 October 19112 May 1995)Morley, Sheridan.

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Mike Batt

Michael Philip Batt LVO (born 6 February 1949) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, director, conductor and former Deputy Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry.

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Nigel Hawthorne

Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne (5 April 1929 – 26 December 2001) was an English actor.

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PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (formerly known as PolyGram Films and PolyGram Pictures or simply PFE) was a British-American film studio founded in 1980 which became a European competitor to Hollywood, but was eventually sold to Seagram Company Ltd. in 1998 and was folded in 2000.

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Ralph Richardson

Sir Ralph David Richardson (19 December 1902 – 10 October 1983) was an English actor who, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.

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Richard Adams

Richard George Adams (9 May 1920 – 24 December 2016) was an English novelist and writer of the books Watership Down, Shardik and The Plague Dogs.

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Richard Briers

Richard David Briers (14 January 1934 – 17 February 2013) was an English actor.

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Richard O'Callaghan

Richard O'Callaghan (born Richard Brooke, 7 March 1940, London) is an English film, stage and television character actor.

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Roadshow Entertainment

Roadshow Entertainment (formerly Roadshow Home Video) is a division of the Australian media company Village Roadshow (formerly Roadshow Home Video and Roadshow Entertainment).

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Roy Kinnear

Roy Mitchell Kinnear (8 January 1934 – 20 September 1988) was an English actor.

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Shotgun shell

A shotgun shell is a self-contained cartridge typically loaded with multiple metallic "shot", which are small, generally spherical projectiles.

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Simon Cadell

Simon John Cadell (19 July 1950 – 6 March 1996) was an English actor, best known for his portrayal of Jeffrey Fairbrother in the first five series of the BBC situation comedy Hi-de-Hi!.

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Suomi-Filmi

Suomi-Filmi, lit.

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Terence Rigby

Terence Christopher Gerald Rigby (2 January 1937 – 10 August 2008) was an English RADA trained actor with a number of film and television credits to his name.

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Terry Rawlings

Terry Rawlings (born 1933 in London, England) is a British film editor and sound editor with several BAFTA nominations and one Academy Award nomination.

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The Criterion Collection

The Criterion Collection, Inc. (or simply Criterion) is an American home video distribution company which focuses on licensing "important classic and contemporary films" and selling them to film aficionados.

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The Plague Dogs (film)

The Plague Dogs is a 1982 British-American animated adventure film based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Richard Adams.

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Thorn EMI

Thorn EMI was a major British company involved in consumer electronics, music, defence and retail.

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Total Film

Total Film is a British film magazine published 13 times a year (published monthly and a summer issue is added every year since issue 91, 2004 which is published between July and August issue) by Future Publishing.

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Trance

Trance denotes any state of awareness or consciousness other than normal waking consciousness.

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Trapping

Animal trapping, or simply trapping, is the use of a device to remotely catch an animal.

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Umbrella Entertainment

Umbrella Entertainment is an Australian film distribution company that began operating in 2001.

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Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.

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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (formerly Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Universal Studios Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, MCA Home Video, MCA Videodisc Inc. and MCA Videocassette Inc.) is the home video distribution division of American film studio Universal Pictures, owned by the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, owned by Comcast.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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Warner Bros. Animation

Warner Bros.

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Warner Home Video

Warner Home Video is the home video distribution arm of Warner Bros. Founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (standing for Warner Communications, Inc.), the company primarily releases titles from the film and television library of Warner Bros.

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Watership Down

Watership Down is a survival and adventure novel by English author Richard Adams, published by Rex Collings Ltd of London in 1972.

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Watership Down (TV series)

Watership Down is a British-Canadian animated fantasy children's television series, adapted from the novel of the same name by Richard Adams.

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Watership Down, Hampshire

Watership Down is a hill, or down, at Ecchinswell in the civil parish of Ecchinswell, Sydmonton and Bishops Green in the English county of Hampshire.

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Zero Mostel

Samuel Joel "Zero" Mostel (February 28, 1915 – September 8, 1977) was an American actor, singer and comedian of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of comic characters such as Tevye on stage in Fiddler on the Roof, Pseudolus on stage and on screen in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Max Bialystock in the original film version of The Producers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_Down_(film)

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