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Watership Down

Movie (1978)

When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.

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Released:	Jan 1st, 1978
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Watership Down Main Cast

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John Hurt
plays Hazel (voiced)

Richard Briers
plays Fiver (voiced)

Michael Graham Cox
plays Bigwig (voiced)

John Bennett
plays Captain Holly (voiced)

Ralph Richardson
plays Chief Rabbit (voiced)

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His voicing of Kehaar was the last film work for Zero Mostel.
This was the first film to feature both John Hurt and Nigel Hawthorne. Both would later star together in two other animated features, The Plague Dogs (1982) (which was also based on a Richard Adams (IV) book), and The Black Cauldron.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Bigwig disappears then reappears on screen as the rabbits enter the shed near the cemetery.
John Hurt and Richard Briers (who played Hazel and Fiver, respectively, in the film) would later return to voice General Woundwort and the new character, Captain Broom, respectively in Watership Down (CA), a TV series remake of the film.

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