Connection
When the Wind Blows is a British film of genre Drama directed by Jimmy T. Murakami released in USA on 11 march 1988 with John Mills
When the Wind Blows (1986)
If you like this film, let us know!
- Infos
- Casting
- Technical infos
- Photos
- Videos
- Film quotes
- Characters
- Music
- Awards
Add to a movie listWhen the Wind Blows is a 1986 British animated disaster film directed by Jimmy Murakami based on Raymond Briggs' graphic novel of the same name. The film stars the voices of John Mills and Peggy Ashcroft as the two main characters.
The film was Briggs' second collaboration with TVC, after their efforts with a special based on another work of his, The Snowman, in 1982. It was distributed by Recorded Releasing in the UK, and by Kings Road Entertainment in the United States. A subsequent graphic novel by Briggs, Ethel and Ernest (1998), makes it clear that Briggs based the protagonist couple in When the Wind Blows on his own parents.
When the Wind Blows is a hybrid of drawn animation and stop-motion animation. The characters of Jim and Hilda Bloggs are drawn, but their home and most of the objects in it are real objects that seldom move but are animated with stop motion when they do.
The soundtrack album features music by Roger Waters and David Bowie (who performed the title song), Genesis, Squeeze and Paul Hardcastle.
Synopsis
James and Hilda Bloggs are a retired couple living in a tidy isolated cottage in rural Sussex in southeast England. James frequently travels to London to read the newspapers and keep abreast of the deteriorating international situation; while frequently misunderstanding some specifics, he is fully aware of the growing risk of a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. James is horrified at a radio news report stating that a war may be only three days away, and sets about preparing for the worst as instructed by his government-issued Protect and Survive pamphlets. As Hilda continues her daily routine, and their son Ron dismisses such preparations as pointless (referencing the song "We'll All Go Together When We Go" by Tom Lehrer), James builds a lean-to shelter inside their home (which he consistently calls the "inner core or refuge" per the pamphets) and prepares a stock of supplies. He also follows through seemingly strange instructions such as painting his windows with white paint and readying sacks to lie down in when a nuclear strike hits. Despite James' concerns, he and Hilda are confident they can survive the war, as they did World War II in their childhoods, and that a Soviet defeat will ensue.Actors
John Mills
(Jim Bloggs (voice))
Peggy Ashcroft
(Hilda Bloggs (voice))
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to When the Wind Blows
There are 101 films with the same actors, 7 films with the same director, 91412 with the same cinematographic genres (including 1 with exactly the same 5 genres than When the Wind Blows), 7932 films with the same themes (including 23 films with the same 3 themes than When the Wind Blows), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked When the Wind Blows, you will probably like those similar films :
In Which We Serve (1942)
, 1h55Directed by David Lean, Noël Coward
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Political films
Actors John Mills, Michael Wilding, Bernard Miles, Noël Coward, Celia Johnson, Philip Friend
Rating71%
The film opens with the narration: "This is the story of a ship" and the images of shipbuilding in a British dockyard. The action then moves forward in time showing the ship, HMS Torrin, engaging German transports in a night-time engagement during the Battle of Crete in 1941. However, when dawn breaks, the destroyer comes under aerial attack from German bombers.
Dunkirk (1958)
, 2h14Directed by Leslie Norman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee, Robert Urquhart, Meredith Edwards, Bernard Cribbins
Rating70%
The film relates the story of Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of surrounded British and French troops from the beaches of Dunkirk. It does so principally from the viewpoints of two people: a newspaper reporter and a soldier.
Waterloo Road (1945)
, 1h13Directed by Sidney Gilliat
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors John Mills, Stewart Granger, Alastair Sim, Joy Shelton, Alison Leggatt, Beatrice Varley
Rating63%
John Mills plays an AWOL soldier who returns to south London to save his wife from the advances of a philandering draft-dodger played by Stewart Granger.
I Was Monty's Double (1958)
, 1h36Directed by John Guillermin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors John Mills, Cecil Parker, Patrick Allen, Bryan Forbes, Patrick Holt, Leslie Phillips
Rating68%
A few months before the D-Day landings during the Second World War, the British government decides to launch a campaign of disinformation; spreading a rumour that the landings just might take place at a location other than Normandy. The details of the operation (actually, there were several such operations) are handed to two intelligence officers, Colonel Logan (Cecil Parker) and Major Harvey (John Mills). They are initially unable to devise such a plan – but one night, Harvey sees an actor at a London theatre, putting on a convincing impression of General Bernard Montgomery.
Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
, 2h10Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle, Harry Andrews, Richard Leech, Diane Clare
Rating76%
A British unit at Tobruk is attacked by the German Afrika Korps, in the Western Desert Campaign of World War II. During the resulting evacuation, Captain Anson (John Mills), a transport pool officer suffering from battle fatigue and alcoholism, MSM Tom Pugh (Harry Andrews), and two nurses, Diana Murdoch (Sylvia Syms) and Denise Norton (Diane Clare), crew an Austin K2/Y ambulance, nicknamed 'Katy', and decide to drive across the desert back to British lines.
The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942)
, 1h20Directed by Basil Dearden, Will Hay
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Will Hay, John Mills, Basil Sydney, Henry Hewitt, Felix Aylmer, Frank Cellier
Rating66%
When he is forced to vacate the office of his debt-ridden correspondence college, 'Professor' Will Davis (Will Hay) goes to the Ministry of International Commerce at Whitehall in order to confront his one-and-only student, PR man Bobby Jessop (John Mills). To get Davis off his back, Jessop proposes to get him a job at Whitehall. Jessop then leaves in order to fetch a Professor Davys at the railway station. The professor is a leading economist who has returned from a long stay in South America in order to advise the British government on a trade treaty with the South American nations, which could be crucial to Britain's war effort.
The Valiant (1962)
, 1h30Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Political films
Actors John Mills, Ettore Manni, Roberto Risso, Robert Shaw, Liam Redmond, Leonardo Cortese
Rating65%
Alexandria December, 1941. Two Italian frogmen are captured under suspicion of placing a mine under the HMS Valiant. They are brought onto the ship for questioning.
Operation Crossbow (1965)
, 1h56Directed by Michael Anderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors George Peppard, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Tom Courtenay, Richard Johnson
Rating66%
From 1943, Nazi Germany started working on terror weapons, the V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket while British Intelligence learns about a new secret weapon. Technical problems with the V-1 lead the Germans to create a manned version to ascertain the flight problems of the rocket but all the test pilots are killed flying it. Aviator Hanna Reitsch (Barbara Rütting) successfully flies and lands the V-1 prototype, discovering the problem (mechanical shifting of the rocket's weight and change of speed) and how to solve it, which leads to the mass production of the V-1.
The Big Blockade (1942)
, 1h13Directed by Charles Frend
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Comedy-drama, Documentary
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Leslie Banks, Frank Cellier, Will Hay, John Mills, Michael Redgrave, Bernard Miles
Rating54%
This is a propaganda film in which the British strategy of the economic blockade of Nazi Germany is illustrated through a series of scenes and sketches, combined with documentary footage.
Zulu Dawn (1979)
, 1h53Directed by Douglas Hickox
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Peter O'Toole, Burt Lancaster, Nigel Davenport, John Mills, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott
Rating65%
The film is set in British South Africa, in the province of Natal, in January 1879. The first act of the film revolves around the administrators and officials of Cape Colony, notably the supremely arrogant Lord Chelmsford and the scheming Sir Henry Bartle Frere, who both wish to crush the neighbouring Zulu Empire, which is perceived as a threat to Cape Colony's emerging industrial economy. Bartle Frere issues an impossible ultimatum to the Zulu king, Cetshwayo, demanding that he dissolve the Zulu Empire. Cetshwayo refuses, providing Cape Colony with a pretext to invade Zululand. Despite objections from leading members of Cape Colony's high society and from Great Britain itself, Bartle Frere authorises Lord Chelmsford to lead a British invasion force into Zululand.