Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em (1988)
A Bizarre Comedy About the Death of Civilisation as We Know it
The world is a blazing atomic hell. Civilisation is dying in agony... What do you do? ...THROW A PARTY! The Third World War has happened. Bombs are dropping everywhere, even Elwood, Melbourne, Australia. In the ruins that follow, three survivors find a bomb shelter. Only to find that the survivors in there are having a party.
- Date of release
- 1988-09-11
- TMDB
- 5.8 / 10 (10)
- Runtime
- 48m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Ray Boseley
Casting
- Nique Needles — Mic
- Rob Howard
- Polly Croke
- Fred Dugina
- Danny Lillford
- Maddog Bott
- George Huxley
- Chris Windmill
- Ian "Quincy" Maclean
- Lindsay Brundson
- Clayton Jacobson
- Adam Learner
Interesting facts
Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em is a 1988 Australian short feature about an underground party held in post-apocalyptic Melbourne. The film is a product of nuclear anxiety at the height of the Cold War, and is considered a cult classic today.
Production
The film originated as a film school project at Swinburne from Ray Boseley. It was funded from a grant by the Independent Filmmakers' Fund at Film Victoria and the Creative Development Branch of the Australian Film Commission.
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