Thursday, November 23, 2023
Watership Down
- Commentary: Under construction.
Professional critics left a trail of highly ambivalent reviews of this movie. This is one of the reasons I decided to add it to my collection. The other reason is the star-spangled cast, some of whom are mentioned below. Wow! Was this movie chased after by the acting community and the heavy-hitters tended to win out! They clearly had high hopes for it. Which, I think, in the end, is what made this movie so popular.
More later.
Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role John Hurt Hazel Richard Briers Fiver Michael Graham Cox Bigwig John Bennett Captain Holly Ralph Richardson Chief Rabbit of Sandleford Simon Cadell Blackberry Roy Kinnear Pipkin Terence Rigby Silver Mary Maddox Clover Richard O'Callaghan Dandelion Denholm Elliott Cowslip Zero Mostel Kehaar Harry Andrews General Woundwort Hannah Gordon Hyzenthlay Nigel Hawthorne Campion Lynn Farleigh Tab the cat
Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
Release Date: 1978
Directed by Martin Rosen.
Labels: animated, Criterion7, john-hurt, rosamund-pike
