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Puckoon

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Time Out says

The mad world of Spike Milligan's 1963 novel is inhabited by the eejits, gobshites and cnawvshawling bollixes of the titular small town, northeast of Sligo. After a physical struggle with the pen, the Border Commission - post-partition, 1924 - overseen by the apoplectic Sir John (Jones), slices Puckoon in half. Barbed wire goes up, ructions erupt and cross border conflicts flare. The British Army's ineffectual Colonel Stokes (Rhys-Jones) demands passports and receives contempt; indignant Father Rudden (O'Malley) transports bodies from his newly Northern Irish cemetery to the safety of the Free State; the IRA secretes arms in coffins; and, momentously, the community's faithful drinkers are forced to the cheaper Free State end of the bar. Writer/director Ryan deals with all this much in the manner of an extended TV sketch, embracing Oirish national stereotyping with the enthusiasm he showed in The Brylcreem Boys. It's old-fashioned nonsense, a rambling, occasionally funny tribute to the hit and miss anarchism of Milligan's comedy.
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Release Details

  • Duration:84 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Terence Ryan
  • Screenwriter:Terence Ryan
  • Cast:
    • Freddie Jones
    • Daragh O'Malley
    • Nickolas Grace
    • John Lynch
    • David Kelly
    • Milo O'Shea
    • Griff Rhys-Jones
    • Elliott Gould
    • Richard Attenborough
    • BJ Hogg
    • Sean Hughes
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