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Karen Meagher
Ruth Beckett
Reece Dinsdale
Jimmy Kemp
David Brierly
Mr. Kemp
Rita May
Mrs. Kemp
Nicholas Lane
Michael Kemp
Jane Hazlegrove
Alison Kemp
Henry Moxon
Mr Beckett
June Broughton
Mrs Beckett
Sylvia Stoker
Granny Beckett
Harry Beety
Clive Sutton
Ruth Holden
Marjorie Sutton
Ashley Barker
Bob
Michael O'Hagan
Chief Supt. Hirst
Phil Rose
Medical Officer
Steve Halliwell
Information Officer
Brian Grellis
Accommodation Officer
Peter Faulkner
Transport Officer
Anthony Collin
Food Officer
Michael Ely
Scientific Officer
Sharon Baylis
Manpower Officer
David Stutt
Works Officer
Phil Askham
Mr Stothard
Anna Seymour
Mrs Stothard
Fiona Rook
Carol Stothard
Christine Buckley
Woman in Supermarket
Joe Belcher
Shopkeeper
David Major
Boy in Supermarket
Maggie Ford
Peace Speaker
Mike Kay
Trade Unionist
Richard Albrecht
Officer at Food Depot
Ted Beyer
Policeman
Dean Williamson
Policeman
Joe Holmes
Mr Langley
Andy Fenn-Rodgers
Patrol Officer
Graham Hill
Soldier
Nigel Collins
Soldier
Jerry Ready
Looter
Dennis Conlon
Looter
Greta Dunn
Woman at Hospital
Nat Jackley
Old Man at Graveyard
John Livesey
Street Trader
Victoria O'Keefe
Jane
Lee Daley
Spike
Marcus Lund
Gaz
Lesley Judd
Newscaster
Colin Ward-Lewis
Newscaster
Paul Vaughan
Narrator (voice)
Ingrid P. Frehley
Woman with dead baby (uncredited)
Michael Shale
Man who has leg amputated (uncredited)
Anne Sellors
Woman who urinates herself (uncredited)
Lee Cambell
Dead Boy Under Gate (uncredited)
Jonathan Harston
Survivor on the Moors (uncredited)
Patrick Allen
Public Information Film Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Ed Bishop
US President (voice) (uncredited)

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A review by znapper

Written by znapper on Mon Feb 20 2017

This film was, for many, a turning-point regarding nuclear weapons, the cold war and nuclear-politics. Set in a 1984 UK industrial-suburbia, as the cold war gets hot, we follow regular people in their daily lives and how they prepare for the coming apocalypse. Barry Hines and Mick Jackson explains and shows us how the world is interconnected and woven together, each strand in this web is dependent on the others and when the threads start to break, the webbing that hold society together, unravel and we are quickly left with hardship and irreparable loss. There is no help from the outsid...