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2 January 1970 (West Germany) moreTagline:
WE'VE GOT A BOMB ON OUR HANDS ( *BOMB - a motion picture so brilliantly funny it goes over most people's heads.) morePlot:
Set in post-nuclear-holocaust England, where a handful of bizarre characters struggle on with their lives in the ruins... more | add synopsisAwards:
2 wins & 2 nominations moreUser Comments:
Milligan's post-apocalyptic fantasy. more (23 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Rita Tushingham | ... | Penelope |
| Ralph Richardson | ... | Lord Fortnum of Alamein |
| Peter Cook | ... | Inspector |
| Harry Secombe | ... | Shelter Man |
 | Dudley Moore | ... | Sergeant |
| Spike Milligan | ... | Mate |
| Michael Hordern | ... | Bules Martin |
| Roy Kinnear | ... | Plastic mac man |
| Jimmy Edwards | ... | Nigel |
| Richard Warwick | ... | Allan |
| Arthur Lowe | ... | Father |
| Mona Washbourne | ... | Mother |
| Ronald Fraser | ... | The Army |
| Dandy Nichols | ... | Mrs Ethel Shroake |
| Frank Thornton | ... | The BBC |
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90 minCountry:
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Argentina:13 | UK:12 (DVD rating) | Australia:PG | UK:AA | USA:M | USA:R (original rating)Fun Stuff
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The revised National Anthem lyrics are.... 'God save Mrs Ethel Shroake, Long live Mrs Ethel Shroake, God save Mrs Ethel Shroake of 393A High Street, Leytonstone' moreFAQ
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Richard Lester's directorial career went into nose-dive (at least for a while) after making this film, which was a pity. It's a post-apocalyptic black comedy like no other. Typically British and typically Milligan-ish, with a stunning visual sense.
What I enjoy most about this film is its uncompromising weirdness. It's incredibly inventive, if not particularly funny, and also quite depressing - but it has to be, dealing with the aftermath of nuclear war.
There are some excellent performances from a cast which seems to contain most of the outstanding British comedy talent of the last thirty years (Marty Feldman is particularly fine) and some pointed satire about the British "stiff upper lip", but it's the surreal visuals which stand out, including the remains of a motorway with hundreds of cars half-buried in mud, and an escalator emerging into a landscape almost entirely composed of broken crockery.
A flawed masterpiece.