Trivia for
Watership Down (1978) More at IMDbPro »

• The backgrounds and locations - especially Efrafa and the nearby railway - are near-perfect matches to the diagrams and maps in Richard Adams's book.
  
  
• Was originally directed by John Hubley, who died in 1977. He and his Faith's work can still be found in the film, most notably in the "fable" scene.
  
  
• His voicing of Kehaar was the last film work for Zero Mostel.
  
  
• Most of the locations in this movie either exist or were based on real spots in Hampshire, England and surrounding areas.
  
  
• 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 book), and The Black Cauldron (1985).
  
  
• Martin Rosen's directorial debut.
  
  
• 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" (1999), a TV series remake of the film.
  
  

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