A semi-autobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. For a young boy, this time in history was ...
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| Sebastian Rice-Edwards | ... | Bill Rohan (as Sebastian Rice Edwards) | |
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Geraldine Muir | ... | Sue Rohan |
| Sarah Miles | ... | Grace Rohan | |
| David Hayman | ... | Clive Rohan | |
| Sammi Davis | ... | Dawn Rohan | |
| Derrick O'Connor | ... | Mac | |
| Susan Wooldridge | ... | Molly | |
| Jean-Marc Barr | ... | Cpl. Bruce Carrey | |
| Ian Bannen | ... | Grandfather George | |
| Annie Leon | ... | Grandma | |
| Jill Baker | ... | Faith | |
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Amelda Brown | ... | Hope |
| Katrine Boorman | ... | Charity | |
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Colin Higgins | ... | Clive's Pal |
| Shelagh Fraser | ... | WVS Woman | |
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A semi-autobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. For a young boy, this time in history was more of an adventure, a total upheaval of order, restrictions and discipline. The liberating effect of the war on the women left behind. And the joy when Hitler blows up your school. Written by Colin Tinto <cst@imdb.com>
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warplane | school bombing | london blitz | premarital sex | grandfather grandson relationship |Taglines:
The epic story of a world at war. And a boy at play.Parents Guide:
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19 February 1988 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Opening Weekend USA:
$25,497, 18 October 1987, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$10,021,120Company Credits
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Columbia Pictures Corporation, Nelson Entertainment, Goldcrest Films International See more »
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Words and music by Slim Gaillard, Slam Stewart, and Bud Green
Performed by Benny Goodman
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"News reel" footage shown in the cinemas of the RAF versus the Luftwaffe is actually from Battle of Britain (1969) See more »Goofs
The man is incorrect when he tells the boy that they (the Nazis) will be bombing France with Big Bertha which has a range of 25 miles. Big Bertha was a nickname given to a gun the Germans constructed in the first World War. It was made by welding 3 gun barrels together which gave it a range of 75 miles. See more »Quotes
Winston Churchhill: [on a radio broadcast] Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.See more »
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Referenced in Siskel & Ebert: Wall Street/Throw Momma from the Train/Broadcast News/Empire of the Sun (1987) See more »Soundtracks
Flat Foot FloogieWords and music by Slim Gaillard, Slam Stewart, and Bud Green
Performed by Benny Goodman
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Since I first saw it, 15 years ago, a little film in a little theater, I have regarded John Boorman's recollections of life as a grade-schooler during "The Blitz" as astonishing. Over the years I've used the movie to bring to life the very points that Anna Freud makes in her diaries of the "War Nurseries" she ran in Hampstead. While the movie is always entertaining, it nevertheless shows the effects on kids and families of life at home during a war: the separations, the losses, the physical damage, the inflammation of aggressive impulses in normal kids, the loosening of parental control over adolescents, the dropping of the curtains we use to keep kids from seeing more than they ought to. The film is wonderfully English, with customary attention to period detail, and a great collection of eccentric and memorable secondary characters. You've just got to see the geography lesson, featuring a middle-aged martinet school-marm who whacks away at a world map, using her pointer to punctuate her lesson on the vastness of England's pre-war empire. I have seen this movie on video, and can say that it translates well to the small screen. In fact it was created for British TV. See it. You'll laugh. You'll cry. And don't tell anyone--You'll learn something, too.