Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II.
- husband wife relationship
- countryside
- nuclear war
- england
- world war ii
- based on comic
- based on graphic novel
- nuclear fallout
- adult animation
- isolated house
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
John Mills
Jim Bloggs (voice)
Peggy Ashcroft
Hilda Bloggs (voice)
Robin Houston
Radio Announcer (voice)
James Russell
Russian submariner (voice)
- David Dundas — Additional Voices (voice)
- Matt Irving — Additional Voices (voice)
- Bernard Montgomery — Self (archive footage)
- Harry S. Truman — Self (archive footage)
- Joseph Stalin — Self (archive footage)
- Winston Churchill — Self (archive footage)
- Directed
- Jimmy T. Murakami
- Written
- Raymond Briggs
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 348 ratings
- Studio
- Penguin Books, British Screen Productions, TVC London, Meltdown Productions, Film4 Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
