Murrain
When a mystery illness infects the pigs of a village farmer and a local boy is also taken ill, the villagers try to convince a veterinarian that it is caused by a curse from a woman they believe to be a witch.
From the archive
The only publically available episode of the Against the Crowd, an anthology drama series about society's outsiders. The series was produced by ATV for ITV, and the episode was written by one of the masters of British television, Nigel Kneale. In it, a no-nonsense vet is forced to join a local witch-hunt after a virus attacks the local pigs.
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Murrain (1975) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. No signup, no payment and no advertising interrupts playback. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- John Cooper
- Starring
- David Simeon, Bernard Lee, Una Brandon-Jones, David Neal, Marjorie Yates, John Golightly, Raymond Platt, Ray Dunbobbin
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