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| “ | Ackland: Ackland here. Dr. Boycott: Mr. Ackland. I wonder if you'd consider doing a small job for me. Ackland: Uh, who's this I'm talking to? Dr. Boycott: Boycott, Dr. Robert Boycott. I'm with the Lawson Park experimental station in Coniston. Ackland: Alright. What kind of job? Dr. Boycott: Well, I understand that there are two dogs that have been worrying sheep up near Thirlmere. If you'd have time, I'd... I'd be most grateful if you could... see your way clear to ensuring that they... they don't do anymore damage. |
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| ~ Ackland being hired by Dr. Boycott to exterminate Rowf and Snitter. |
Ackland is a supporting antagonist in Martin Rosen's 1982 animated film The Plague Dogs, which is based on the 1977 novel by Richard Adams. He is a bounty hunter who was hired by Dr. Boycott to exterminate Rowf and Snitter.
He was voiced by Geoffrey Matthews.
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After Snitter accidentally kills a wealthy businessman named Pierce Chetwynd, Dr. Boycott phones Ackland and offers him a job to hunt down the two dogs. Ackland gets his rifle ready and heads out after Rowf and Snitter.
After Snitter narrowly manages to escape Stephen Powell and the police after being captured by the Dawsons, Ackland finds the dogs' original hideout, only to find them gone.
While the dogs and the Tod are trying to escape from the hunters and to the Irish sea, Ackland tracks them down past the rock circle. He is then seen walking past the small pond the dogs were at the other day, while the Under Secretary and the Assistant Secretary discuss about the dogs carrying the plague.
On a snowy day, Rowf and Snitter begin to starve and Ackland is hot on their trail after coming across a chicken farm that was recently raided by the two dogs. The next day, Ackland finds the two dogs and goes up a steep hillside on the Dow Crag to shoot them, unaware that the Tod is following him. As Ackland takes aim on Rowf, the Tod jumps him, causing him to fall to his death, but not before he shoots off Rowf's collar. His body is then devoured by the starving dogs and his half-eaten corpse is later found by an RAF helicopter, which leads William Harbottle to implement Operation Gelert via deploying the 3rd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment to hunt down the two dogs.
While Boycott is having a conversation with Lynn Driver, he receives a call and learns about the incident of Ackland's death as well as the severed collar belonging to Rowf and sends someone to the station.
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- Ackland never existed in the book. Instead, the hunter who fell off the Dow Crag was a bank clerk named Geoffrey Westcott, who only wanted to shoot the dogs for raiding his groceries. Westcott only appears in one scene as the two dogs raid his car, while his interview with Lynn Driver is overheard. In addition, it was farmer Dennis Williamson who found Westcott's corpse instead of an RAF helicopter.
- The scene where the RAF helicopter finds Ackland's partially eaten corpse was removed from the theatrical version, because audiences felt uncomfortable with the idea of pets eating humans.
- Ackland is referred to as "Lack Loud" in the title of the soundtrack associated with his death.
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