All Creatures Great and Small (film)
All Creatures Great and Small is a 1975 British film (copyrighted in 1974), directed by Claude Whatham and starring Simon Ward and Anthony Hopkins as Yorkshire vets James Herriot and Siegfried Farnon. It is based on the first novels by James Herriot (the pen name of veterinary surgeon Alf Wight): If Only They Could Talk (1970) and It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1972).
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Directed by | Claude Whatham |
Screenplay by | Hugh Whitemore |
Based on | If Only They Could Talk & It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet by James Herriot |
Produced by | David Susskind Duane Bogie executive Ronald Gilbert |
Starring | Simon Ward Anthony Hopkins Brian Stirner Lisa Harrow |
Cinematography | Peter Suschitzky |
Edited by | Ralph Sheldon |
Music by | Wilfred Josephs |
Production companies | Venedon Limited EMI Films Talent Associates |
Distributed by | EMI Film Distributors Limited |
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Running time | 87 minutes (US version) 120 mins (theatrical version) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | $1.2 million or $1 million |
The film was given the same title as the 1972 US compilation volume of these two novels. It is the first of a series of films and television series based on Herriot's work. A sequel was released in 1976, somewhat confusingly titled It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet, although it actually covers the two following novels, Let Sleeping Vets Lie and Vet in Harness.
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