Rabid Dogs [SEP] director
Rabid Dogs
Rabid Dogs () is an Italian film directed by Mario Bava, starring Riccardo Cucciolla, Don Backy, Lea Lander, Maurice Poli, George Eastman and Erika Dario. Taking place largely in real time, the film follows a trio of payroll robbers who kidnap a young woman and force a man with a sick child to be their getaway driver, all while trying to avoid being caught by the police.
An adaptation of the "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" short story "Man and Boy" by
the worker directs him to the nearest exit. Polgas soon exited the cave, but he wasn't out of danger just yet - at the mouth of the cave were scores of rabid dogs and a suspicious character injecting the dogs with an unknown substance. Upon seeing Polgas, he pressed a button on a portable stereo. Immediately, the rabid dogs went mad and attacked Polgas, who climbed a tree to evade the rabid canines. He recognized the suspicious-looking man, who had climbed the same tree he had - it