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Overall Rank: 16429
Average Rating: 2.3/4
# of Ratings: 11
Theatrical Release Date: 07/07/1965
Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 04/06/2010
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joseph Losey
Actors: Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors, Alexander Knox, Oliver Reed, Walter Gotell
Plot: An American, his girlfriend and her punk of a brother stumble into a cave in the English countryside where a scientist has transformed a group of children to be resistant to atomic blasts.
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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 …
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