All Creatures Great and Small (film)

All Creatures Great and Small
Original British 1975 quad format poster
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
Release date	9 May 1975 (1975-05-09) (UK[1])
Running time	87 minutes (US version) 120 mins (theatrical version)
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	$1.2 million[2] or $1 million[3]

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).

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.