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The Breaking Of Bumbo. Image shows from L to R: Susie (Joanna Lumley), C.S.M. Peters (Derek Newark), Jock (John Bird). Copyright: Timon Films / Associated British Corporation
The Breaking Of Bumbo

The Breaking Of Bumbo

  • 1970 film

Comedy contrasting the demands of a military life with the temptations of the early 1960s and the sexual revolution. Stars Richard Warwick, Joanna Lumley, Natasha Pyne, Jeremy Child, Derek Newark and more.

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Richard Warwick and Joanna Lumley star in this sexy, exuberant social satire charting the travails of an angry young man reacting against his environment. Adapting his bestselling novel, director Andrew Sinclair draws on his own youthful experiences: The Breaking Of Bumbo is a time-capsule portrait of military rigour competing with the era's burgeoning sexual and social freedoms, set against explosive scenes of Swinging-Sixties London.

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