The Bullion Boys
- TV comedy drama
- BBC One
- 1993
- 1 episode
Comedy thriller about what might have happened to Britain's gold reserves when they were transported to Liverpool during World War II. Stars David Jason, Tim Pigott-Smith, Gorden Kaye, Brenda Blethyn, Geoffrey Hutchings and more.
Press clippings
The Bullion Boys was a lollipop for finishing the Screen One series nicely. There is, it seems to me, something specific about Liverpool humour. It is the place where the Irish, Welsh and Scots, trying to get in, meet the English trying to get out and kick up a fine, creative froth. David Jason, playing the dockers' leader, was not like this at all. It was a sombre, strong performance like the stout below. Brenda Blethyn gave a ticklingly funny performance as a letter censor, rather like an exceptionally clever hen.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 25th October 1993