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Category: 16
All Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Release Year: 1984
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Runtime: 110
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Mick Jackson
Sound: Mono
Taglines:He always wanted to be special... but he never expected this!
Writing by: Barry Hines - writer
Produced by: Mick Jackson - producer
Graham Massey - executive producer
John Purdie - executive producer
Peter Wolfes - associate producer
Cast: Karen Meagher - Ruth Beckett
Reece Dinsdale - Jimmy Kemp
David Brierly - Mr. Kemp (as David Brierley)
Rita May - Mrs. Kemp
Nicholas Lane - Michael Kemp
Jane Hazlegrove - Alison Kemp
Henry Moxon - Mr. Beckett
June Broughton - Mrs. Beckett
Sylvia Stoker - Granny Beckett
Harry Beety - Clive Sutton
Ruth Holden - Marjorie Sutton
Music: Dick Walter
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run affects of nuclear war on civilization.
Plot: Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run affects of nuclear war on civilization.
Movie Quotes: Narrator: In an urban society, everything connects. Each person's needs are fed by the skills of many others. Our lives are woven together in a fabric. But the connections that make society strong also make it vulnerable.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The end credits are shown as the crowd cheers and celebrates in slow motion.
Goofs: We know about 5 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: Jane, Ruth's daughter, who gives birth was herself born after the nuclear holocaust, yet she has fillings and pierced ears.
Trivia: There are 4 entries in the trivia list - like these:
All Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Release Year: 1984
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Runtime: 110
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Mick Jackson
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
Writing by: Barry Hines - writer
Produced by: Mick Jackson - producer
Graham Massey - executive producer
John Purdie - executive producer
Peter Wolfes - associate producer
Cast: Karen Meagher - Ruth Beckett
Reece Dinsdale - Jimmy Kemp
David Brierly - Mr. Kemp (as David Brierley)
Rita May - Mrs. Kemp
Nicholas Lane - Michael Kemp
Jane Hazlegrove - Alison Kemp
Henry Moxon - Mr. Beckett
June Broughton - Mrs. Beckett
Sylvia Stoker - Granny Beckett
Harry Beety - Clive Sutton
Ruth Holden - Marjorie Sutton
Music: Dick Walter
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run affects of nuclear war on civilization.
Plot: Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run affects of nuclear war on civilization.
Movie Quotes: Narrator: In an urban society, everything connects. Each person's needs are fed by the skills of many others. Our lives are woven together in a fabric. But the connections that make society strong also make it vulnerable.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The end credits are shown as the crowd cheers and celebrates in slow motion.
Goofs: We know about 5 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: Jane, Ruth's daughter, who gives birth was herself born after the nuclear holocaust, yet she has fillings and pierced ears.
Trivia: There are 4 entries in the trivia list - like these:
- US television magnate Ted Turner wanted to air this film on TBS, his cable TV network, but couldn't find a sponsor. He decided to broadcast the film out of his own pocket.
- While shooting the movie, the BBC got in trouble with local police when they detonated a large smoke bomb in order to simulate a nuclear explosion. Members of the public, who were not aware that a movie was being shot, panicked and thought that a real explosion had occurred.
- Findings from the 1980 British Government exercise "Square Leg" were used as the basis for projecting the level of destruction and number of casualties in the movie. "Square Leg" was a government project that estimated what would happen in Britain in the event of an actual attack. It projected the mortality rate at 29 million, serious injuries at 7 million and short term survivors at 19 million.
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