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Hot and cold war
Bribaba - wrote on 05/04/2011
The action takes place Weymouth, a coastal resort in the south-west of England,, home to a biker gang who act tough by strutting around in black leather jackets and….whistling. The leader of the gang (Oliver Reed) has a thing for his sister played by Bolton girl Shirley Anne Field who, in turn, gets picked up by an American yachtsman. There’s also a parallel story involving an eccentric sculptress and a mysterious military base where a group of schoolchildren are held captive in underground bunker not that dissimilar to the one Stanley Kubrick used in Dr Strangelove one year later. The two narratives soon merge to form a totally incoherent whole.
Without giving too much away, the children are being prepared for the nuclear war that is ‘inevitable’. Huge computer tapes whirr …
