War (The Comic Strip Presents . . . )

Date: 1983
Director: Bob Spiers
Production Company: Michael White, Comic Strip, Channel 4 Television Corporation

Stars: Robbie Coltrane, Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Daniel Peacock, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders
Location(s): Essex, London

Region(s): ,

Storyline:

A middle-class couple retreat to a rural hide-away in a post-invasion occupied England.

Additional Information:

Page compiled by Phil Wilkinson

A television film from ‘The Comic Strip Presents . . . ‘ series.

Series 1, episode 2.

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On the morning that Surrey is invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries, a yellow animal-print Jeep Cherokee speeds into the countryside from London. Wat Tyler Way on Canvey Island, to the south of Basildon in Essex, located on the Cult Film Locations blogspot.

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Godfrey and Hermine arrive at their "perfectly quaint" safe house in the middle of nowhere.

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Getting out of the car, Godfrey (Daniel Peacock) explains to Hermine (Dawn French) it still needs some work before the pair hurry inside.

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Nearby, a group of blinded Commandos (Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Peter Richardson, Nigel Planer) struggle to make a cup of tea before blowing themselves up when a grenade is mistaken for a can of beer.

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Becoming separated from Godfrey, Hermine wanders through a seemingly deserted village. The chalets suggest an off season holiday camp.

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Hermine approaches a café and enters when a group of men dressed as Mexicans appear from one of the ruined buildings.

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When 15,000 Russians invade the village, a Soviet Officer, Ivan (Nigel Planer) places handcuffs on Hermine outside the café.

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Godfrey is taken to a prisoner of war camp in the Canton of Mitsubishi, formerly Milton Keynes.

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At a checkpoint on the edge of the Free State of Soho in swinging London, Markoff (Robbie Coltrane) brags to Zarkoff (Adrian Edmondson) that he has killed or seriously injured 24 people. Looking towards Great Windmill Street from Smiths Court W1 identified on the Cult Film Locations blogspot.

Facing the same way in daylight. PW

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As they walk through Soho together, Ivan tells Hermine that he wants her to return to the Soviet Union with him when the lousy war is over. Possibly Smiths Court.

A likely looking position . . . if the location is Smiths Court. PW

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Hermine runs through Soho to start her new job in a fast food bar after Ivan leaves her at the checkpoint. The corner of Smiths Court and Great Windmill Street with Soho Parish School in the background.

The corner now. PW

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Having escaped from the prisoner of war camp, Godfrey exits from Piccadilly Circus station wearing a bowler hat that's far too small and makes for a fast food bar. Piccadilly Circus in W1.

There are several exits from the tube. This is the one at the top of Regent's Street St James's. SJ