Bloody Kids

[Firestorm]

1979 Film. Got the DVD yesterday, anyone else seen it.

Shot entirely in Southend, references early on about going to the match saturday, Splendid exterior shots of the old Southbank and the East stand , One of the main characters wheres a Southend Scarf throughout...but tbh a crap film

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

I remember the camera man shooting us fans as we were going in and out of a game, and later finding out it was for a film.
Never seen the film tho.

 

[Beefy]

I saw it on BBC2 a couple of years ago. Pretty pants film but was interesting seeing Southend before I remember it (I was born in 1978).

 

[MK Shrimper]

Looked it up on IMDB and didn't expect it to be written & directed by such a luminaries as Stephen(s) Frear & Poliakoff.

Yours for £5.99 on amazon! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bloody-Kids/dp/B000I8OP6E

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

Yeah thats the film with Cassandra in it from only fools and horses and the bloke from Auf Wiedersehen Pet. Has been mentioned a few times on here before. They take the kid the wrong way out the ground & also pass by chalkwell park to get to Southend Hospital!

Some of the best bits are the Ford Capri? or might be a Cortina driving down the High Street around the Keddies glass display things and also driving around Victoria Shopping centre.

I think most of the seafront scenes were shot in Canvey although there are some bits in the Rossi's place along the seafront which still looks the same today.

 

[DTS]

Is that the one with a kid in it who is a right sod and gets whacked outside Roots Hall?

 

[Firestorm]

Yeah thats the film with Cassandra in it from only fools and horses and the bloke from Auf Wiedersehen Pet. Has been mentioned a few times on here before. They take the kid the wrong way out the ground & also pass by chalkwell park to get to Southend Hospital!

Some of the best bits are the Ford Capri? or might be a Cortina driving down the High Street around the Keddies glass display things and also driving around Victoria Shopping centre.

Thats exactly what we picked up on last night !!!

I think most of the seafront scenes were shot in Canvey although there are some bits in the Rossi's place along the seafront which still looks the same today.

The Cop car takes the kid along the front of the east stand towards the South Bank (where there is no way out) the next shot is past Chalkwell park, then alongthe seafron by the arches and finally into the hospital !

The Aufweiderehn Pet bloke was Gary Holman (former lead singer of the Heavy Metal Kids as well) Jesse Birdsall (Eldorado) and Gary Oldman .
Both Gary's are now dead

BTW it was a Cortina and there were some great shots of Feilds the old clothes shop

 

[Firestorm]

Is that the one with a kid in it who is a right sod and gets whacked outside Roots Hall?

two kids concoct a plot to fool the police into thinking one got stabbed and it goes wrong

 

[palexander]

The Cop car takes the kid along the front of the east stand towards the South Bank (where there is no way out) the next shot is past Chalkwell park, then alongthe seafron by the arches and finally into the hospital !

The Aufweiderehn Pet bloke was Gary Holman (former lead singer of the Heavy Metal Kids as well) Jesse Birdsall (Eldorado) and Gary Oldman .
Both Gary's are now dead

BTW it was a Cortina and there were some great shots of Feilds the old clothes shop

Gary Oldman isnt dead is he? Unless I'm thinking of the more famous one?!

 

[Smiffy]

Is this the one where the kid falls from the top of a double decker?

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Gary Oldman isnt dead is he? Unless I'm thinking of the more famous one?!

Exactly what I was about to post.

 

[Firestorm]

And Mel Smith as the Doorman in the Disco (Downstairs in the Bottom Alex I believe)

Trigger is in there too.....as a Doctor

 

[Firestorm]

Exactly what I was about to post.

MISPOST Try Gary Olsen....2.4 Children

 

[Napster]

MISPOST Try Gary Olsen....2.4 Children

wasn;t he a leftwinger for Man U?

Oh, that Olsen. The UK's version of John Candy.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Yes - remember it vaguely from the time. Two kids I knew were in the gang featured, ie Jez Millbank and Andy Lewis. Can't remember a great deal about it though.

 

[TJC]

Remember it well. Tis my school in that - Furtherwick park on Canvey - ah the memories!

 

[BLUEBLOOD]

Time for the pub i think ..

 

[Gt Yarmouth Shrimper]

I remember the camera man shooting us fans as we were going in and out of a game, and later finding out it was for a film.
Never seen the film tho.

I was there when they did some of the crowd shots, but never saw myself in the film when it came out

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Not a good film (as others have said)but set in the Essex Riveria which makes a copy at Amazon's price well worth it.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Time for the pub i think ..

Bloody mods!