Playboys, The (1992)

Animal action includes one scene where Nora and her sister are making breakfast. They discover a dead mouse with it’s head in a trap. Nora picks up the mouse and throws it’s body out of the door. This was a fake toy mouse.

The morning after a heavy rain, one of the village men discover two of his cows floating dead in a pond. With the aid of his neighbors and a horse, he has the dead animals dragged out of the pond. Cow skins were purchased from a local slaughter house and taken to a taxidermist and stuffed for this scene.

In another scene we see two hunters coming back into town, one with two dead rabbits slung over his shoulder. These rabbits were purchased from a local butcher shop.

In still another scene, one of the town’s children has stolen a stick of dynamite from the traveling show’s trailer. He and his friends go down to the creek and throw the dynamite into the water, where it explodes. The children then go into the water and start collecting the dead fish that have floated to the top of the water. For this scene an air hose was placed under the water with a high pressure nozzle releasing air into the water causing the effect of an explosion. Dead fish were purchased from a local fish monger and placed in the water. The sound of the explosion was dubbed in after the scene was completed.

Other scenes involving animals included pigs riding in a truck, chickens in a coop, horses mating, Nora riding a donkey, pigs being fed, a dog being walked on a leash, a pigeon sitting on a window sill and a goat and peacocks in background scenes.