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Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em (film)

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Wikipedia article




'Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em' is a 1988 Australian short feature. It is a cult movie.

Premise



Nuclear war reaches Elwood, Melbourne.

Cast



*Nique Needles

*Rob Howard

*Fred Dugina

*Danny Lillford

*Clayton Jacobsen

Production



The film originated as a film school project at Swinburne from Ray Bosley. It was funded from a Film Victoria grant.

Release



The film released in 1988. In May 2020 the film screened at Monster Fest in Australia.

Reception



Reviewing the DVD re-release 'The Curb' wrote "When the rest of the world was making 'Threads', 'Miracle Mile' and 'The Day After', Australia was busy making 'Smoke Em If Youve Got Em'. Writer/director Ray Boseley plugs in the amp, loads up the bong, and turns off the lights for the party to end all parties as he brings the nuclear apocalypse to the Elwood, Melbourne. This 1988 raucous punk affair runs for a brisk 48 minutes, making good on the promise that once the bombs hit, you dont have long to live, so you best have one heck of a time while youre going out. "

According to the Oz Movies website, the film "certainly more fun than watching other Australian post-apocalyptic movies, such as John Duigan's dull, well-meaning 'One Night Stand', or the wretched 'On the Beach', which shares Melbourne as a location, but in the Stanley Kramer way offers not a shred of nihilistic, anarchistic, Swinburnian Melburnian humour."

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