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Synopsis: Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long running effects of nuclear war on civilization.
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Director(s): Mick Jackson
  4 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.1
Metacritic:
92
Year:
1984
112 min
3,714 Views


has refused to be drawn on the crisis...

- Oh, hello.

- Do come in.

- Mum, Mrs. Kemp, Mr. Kemp.

- Pleased to meet you.

- How do you do?

- How do you do?

- Jimmy, my dad. Mr. and Mrs. Kemp.

- Oh, hello.

- How do you do?

- How do you do, Mrs. Kemp?

- Do go through.

- Thank you very much.

- Thank you.

- Come in.

BBC news at eight o'clock.

The Soviet Union has protested strongly

to the United States

about dangerous provocations

by American ships in the Gulf of Oman.

This follows an incident where damage

was caused to the Soviet cruiser Kirov

when she was in collision

with the US destroyer Callaghan.

It's in a bit of a state

but it's got possibilities.

I'd have that door stripped down,

all this paper off and the walls white.

There's about 16 layers on here.

My mother and dad'll help us,

I'm sure they will.

My dad'll give us a hand as well.

He'll be glad of summat to do.

What you laughing at?

His face when my mother said

we could borrow his redundancy money.

Don't.

He were fancying a trip to Bermuda on it.

- Looks like being Blackpool again.

- Oh, dear.

I like the gardens. It's lovely for children

to have somewhere to play.

I wonder if they'll let me

build an aviary down there.

Oh, you and your birds.

Makes you feel funny, though, don't it?

What do you mean?

Us owning a home,

being married, having children.

- Enough to put years on you, in't it?

- Don't be silly.

It'll be lovely.

I just know it will.

- Here you are, love.

- Ta.

American and Israeli

search and rescue vessels

today came across debris and oil slicks

from the missing submarine.

It's being said in Washington

that the Los Angeles was on a routine

reconnaissance mission off Iran

when she sank last Tuesday

with a loss of all hands.

After paying tribute

to her 127 officers and men,

the President said he held the Soviet

Union responsible for their deaths

and for the vessel's disappearance.

The unprovoked attack

on our submarine and the move into Iran

are the actions

of a reckless and warlike power.

I have to warn the Soviets

in the clearest possible terms

that they risk taking us to the brink

of an armed confrontation

with incalculable consequences

for all mankind.

Britain has

emergency plans for war.

If central government should ever fail,

power can be transferred instead

to a system of local officials

dispersed across the country.

In an urban district like Sheffield,

there is already

a designated wartime controller.

He's the city's peacetime chief executive.

If it should suddenly become necessary,

he can be given

full powers of internal government.

When, or if, this happens

depends on the crisis itself.

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Barry Hines

Melvin Barry Hines, FRSL (30 June 1939 – 18 March 2016) was an English author who wrote several popular novels and television scripts. He is best known for the novel A Kestrel for a Knave (1968), which he helped adapt for Ken Loach's film Kes (1969). more…

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