Richard Warwick
Bumbo Bailey
Search results
The Breaking of Bumbo is a 1970 British comedy film directed by Andrew Sinclair and starring Richard Warwick, Joanna Lumley, Jeremy Child and Edward Fox. [2][3] The screenplay was by Sinclair, a former Coldstream Guards National service officer, adapted from his 1959 novel of the same name.
The hilarious adventures of young Bumbo Bailey, who enlists in the Brigade of Guards and is based in the prestigious Wellington Barracks in London in the Swinging Sixties. He regards his social life as important as his military.
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.
Is The Breaking of Bumbo streaming? Find out where to watch online amongst 45+ services including Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video.
The Breaking of Bumbo (1970) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
A young guardsman becomes involved with anti-war protesters in 1960s London.
- Drama
People also ask
Is the breaking of Bumbo based on a true story?
What is the plot of the breaking of Bumbo?
Is 'the breaking of Bumbo' a good movie?
Was the breaking of Bumbo a'red London bus' movie?
An exuberant social satire charting the problems of an angry young man reacting against his environment. Bumbo Bailey, newly commissioned in the Household Brigade, has his bored military life rudely shaken up when he falls in with some bourgeois revolutionaries who try to manipulate him into a course of action that could have dire consequences ...
