Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.
Writing
Milligan's wordplay survives adaptation better than it should.
Acting
Griff Rhys Jones commits fully to pompous military idiocy.
Director
Terence Ryan
Sean Hughes
Dan Madigan
Elliott Gould
Dr Goldstein
Daragh O'Malley
Father Rudden
John Lynch
O'Brien
Griff Rhys Jones
Col. Stokes
Nickolas Grace
Foggerty
B.J. Hogg
Rafferty
John Kavanagh
Haggerty
Richard Ridings
Alex Walker
David Kelly
O'Toole
Milo O'Shea
Sgt. McGillikuddie
Freddie Jones
Sir John Meredith
Richard Attenborough
Writer/Director
Frankie McCafferty
Lenny
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Milligan himself hated the 1969 BBC radio adaptation so much he wrote angry letters—this film had his cautious blessing before his 2002 death.
The real Border Commission of 1925 actually did create absurd enclaves; Milligan just added corpses and mules to documented history.
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