The Breaking of Bumbo

The Breaking of Bumbo (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1970 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Andrew Sinclair

Written By:
Andrew Sinclair

Actors:
Richard Warwick ..... Bumbo Bailey
Joanna Lumley ..... Susie
Natasha Pyne ..... Sheila
Jeremy Child ..... Billy
John Bird ..... Jock
Donald Pickering ..... Jorum
Graham Bond ..... Himself (The Graham Bond Initiation)
Michael Burrell ..... Gdsm. Matt
Timothy Carlton ..... Bean
Warren Clarke ..... Gdsm. Andrews
Jon Croft ..... Gdsm. James
Ron Davies ..... Gdsm. Bart
Edward Fox ..... Horwood
Anouska Hempel ..... Debutante
George Janson ..... Farquhar
Peter Laird ..... Gdsm. Munch
Don McKillop ..... R.S.M.
Peter Myers ..... C.O.
Derek Newark ..... C.S.M. Peters
Robert Russell ..... Sgt. Clegg
Howard Southern ..... L / Cpl. Johnson
Robert Swann ..... Machaffie
Peter Whitting ..... Downley
Jeffry Wickham ..... Medical Offic
Simon Williams ..... Crutcher

Synopsis:

Richard Warwick and Joanna Lumley star in this sexy, exuberant comedy charting the travails of a young guardsman learning to become an officer. Adapting his bestselling novel, The Breaking of Bumbo draws on the youthful experiences of director Andrew Sinclair: it is a time-capsule portrait of military rigour competing with the era's burgeoning sexual and social freedoms, set against a picture-postcard backdrop of Swinging-Sixties London. The Breaking of Bumbo is presented uncut in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical ratio. Bumbo Bailey, a newly commissioned Ensign of the Household Brigade, considers his social life every bit as important as his military career. But his troubles begin when he falls in with the luscious Susie and her friend Jock, whose principal occupation is organizing anti-war demonstrations. When they decide to protest outside Wellington Barracks, Bumbo's military career is soon in jeopardy!

Richard Warwick and Joanna Lumley star in this sexy, exuberant social satire charting the travails of an angry young man reacting against his environment. Adapting his bestselling novel, director Andrew Sinclair draws on his own youthful experiences: The Breaking of Bumbo is a time-capsule portrait of military rigour competing with the era's burgeoning sexual and social freedoms, set against explosive scenes of Swinging-Sixties London. Denied a theatrical release by EMI and only intermittently shown on television, The Breaking of Bumbo is presented here uncut in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements and in its original aspect ratio. Bumbo Bailey, a newly commissioned Ensign of the Household Brigade, becomes quickly bored with the social life this entails. This boredom is rudely shattered when he falls in with the luscious Susie and her friend Jock, bourgeois revolutionaries whose principal occupation is organising anti-war demonstrations. Sensing Bumbo's general dissatisfaction with everything they try to manipulate him into a course of action which could have dire consequences for his future.

The comic adventures of Bumbo Bailey who, at nineteen, joins the Guards as an officer cadet.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 14 October, 2013.