Overview:
Captain S. Melly takes over as the new Commanding Officer at an experimental mixed sex air defence base. It's 1940 and England is under heavy bombardment, but the crew seem more interested in each other than the enemy planes above. Captain Melly plans to put a stop to all this, and becomes the target of a campaign to abandon his separatist ideals...| Status: | Released (1976-10-01) |
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| Screen: | David Pursall, Jack Seddon |
| Productions: | The Rank Organisation |
| Production Countries: | United Kingdom |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 40962: Kenneth Connor - Captain S. Melly
- 86108: Windsor Davies - Sergeant-Major 'Tiger' Bloomer
- 41234: Judy Geeson - Sergeant Tilly Willing
- 95092: Patrick Mower - Sergeant Len Able
- 84443: Jack Douglas - Bombardier Ready
- 40949: Joan Sims - Private Jennifer Ffoukes-Sharpe
- 30188: Melvyn Hayes - Gunner Shorthouse
Crews
- 11120: David Pursall - Screenplay - Writing
- 40940: Gerald Thomas - Director - Directing
- 11121: Jack Seddon - Screenplay - Writing
- 1568858: Max Harris - Music - Sound
- 1098435: Roy Goddard - Production Manager - Production
- 21602: Ernest Steward - Director of Photography - Camera
- 1474505: Godfrey A. Godar - Camera Operator - Camera
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I'm afraid that by 1976, this franchise had well and truly run it's course - and this puerile and really quite tacky attempt at a wartime comedy put a final nail in it's coffin. Funnily enough, the innuendo-ridden character names look better on paper than they do when mentioned on sc ....
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