Name: The Machine Gunners
Genre: family, war-politics
Released: 1983
Duration: 25 min
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Shaun Taylor, Debbie Breen, Alastair Craig, Andrew Craig, John Gannie

The Machine Gunners (1983) — family, war-politics TV series. Directed by Colin Cant. Starring Shaun Taylor, Debbie Breen, Alastair Craig, Andrew Craig.

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Story Analysis

Children's adventure during WWII with themes of war, responsibility, and growing up

During the Second World War, a group of youth in the Northeast England town of Garmouth regularly suffer from bomb attacks by the German forces. One of the children raids a crashed German aircraft and takes a fully operational machine gun, intending to set up their own fortress. Playing with it causes a German plane to crash-land; the kids befriend the pilot, who is unaware that they had caused him to crash.

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Colin Cant
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William Corlett
author

Robert Westall
writer

William Corlett
actor

as Chas McGill

Shaun Taylor

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