- HD 1080
- Runtime: 107m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: New Zealand
- Director: Roger Donaldson
- Stars: Sam Neill, Warren Oates, Ian Mune, Ian Watkin, William Johnson
- keywords: civil war, based on novel or book, dystopia, new zealand
- Production_studio: New Zealand Film Commission, Aardvark Films, Broadbank Investments
- Slogan: What happens when you're hunted...and there's no place to run!
- providers: ARROW
- The Sleeping Dogs is featured in the top rankings of 1977
- #51 in Top Action Movies of 1977
- #45 in Top Thriller Movies of 1977
Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught between warring factions.
