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The Bofors Gun is a film of genre Drama directed by Jack Gold released in USA on 22 september 1968 with Nicol Williamson

The Bofors Gun (1968)

The Bofors Gun
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Released in USA 22 september 1968
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Genres Drama,    War
Rating66% 3.3370253.3370253.3370253.3370253.337025

The Bofors Gun is a 1968 British drama film directed by Jack Gold and starring Nicol Williamson, Ian Holm and John Thaw. It was based on the play Events While Guarding The Bofors Gun by John McGrath. It is set in 1954, during the British peacetime occupation of West Germany following the Second World War. It portrays the increasingly violent interaction between members of a squad of soldiers during a single night of guard duty.

Its budget was an estimated $800,000.

Synopsis

West Germany, 1954. Lance Bombardier Evans, a sheltered middle-class National Serviceman, is about to be sent back to England to undertake a second attempt at officer training. But first he has to get through one night of guard duty without incident. Evans is in charge of a section of six men detailed to guard an obsolete Bofors Gun at a British military base. It soon becomes clear that none of the section, with the exception of Flynn, have any respect for Evans, guessing rightly that the latter has no enthusiasm and little ability in his role. Gunner O'Rourke in particular is troublesome and insubordinate, his contempt for Evans spurring him to test the authority and patience of the weak-willed NCO. Evan's fumbling attempts to engage him in friendly conversation only makes matters worse. The atmosphere grows more tense and O'Rourke strikes one of the other men, Rowe and then dares Evans to place him on a disciplinary charge but the NCO is too nervously intimidated to do so. O'Rourke and his sidekick Featherstone insist on being allowed to go to the NAAFI to buy cigarettes and Evans ill-advisedly lets them go.

Actors

Nicol Williamson

(Gunner O'Rourke)Ian Holm

(Gunner Flynn)David Warner

(Lance Bombardier Terry Evans)Peter Vaughan

(Sergeant Walker)John Thaw

(Gunner Featherstone)
And :
Barry Jackson
Richard O'Callaghan
Barbara Jefford
Glynn Edwards
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