Puckoon (2002)

Director:

Terence Ryan

Writers:

Spike Milligan (novel)
Terence Ryan (screenplay)

Release Date:

4 April 2003 (Ireland)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Knowing where to draw the line

Plot:

Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.

Plot Keywords:

Coffin | Small Town | Rural | Border Checkpoint | Breaking The Fourth Wall

Cast

Sean Hughes	...	Dan Madigan
Elliott Gould	...	Dr. Goldstein
Daragh O'Malley	...	Father Rudden
John Lynch	...	O'Brien
Griff Rhys Jones	...	Col. Stokes
Nickolas Grace	...	Foggerty
B.J. Hogg	...	Rafferty
David Kelly	...	O'Toole
Milo O'Shea	...	Sgt. McGillikuddie
Freddie Jones	...	Sir John Meredith
Richard Rickings	...	Alex Walker
Richard Attenborough	...	Writer-Director
Marc Sinden	...	The surveyor
Frankie McCafferty	...	Lenny
Conor Mullen	...	Shamus
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Margaret D'Arcy	...	Madam Tooney
Richard Dormer	...	Arthur Faddington
Maureen Dow	...	Agnes Grope
Ronnie Drew	...	Pearse
Enda Fields	...	Officer in court-martial
Patrick Fields	...	Captain in court-martial
Anthony Finigan	...	Madigan's dad
Stuart Gibson	...	Caesar Scout
Clifford Hadyn-Tovey	...	Retired colonel
Muriel Hobson	...	Mrs. Doonan
Jenny Howe	...	Mrs. Croucher
Christopher Jupe	...	Cpl. Worms
John Kavanagh	...	Haggerty
Sean Kearns	...	Theobald Dring
Terry Keely	...	Mammy Scout
John Keenan	...	Feely
Trudie Kelly	...	Winifred Grope
Gerard Ban Lavery	...	Sergeant Major
Charles Lawson	...	Nigel Ferguson
Paul Loughran	...	Farmer Murphy
Kevin McCartan	...	Scout
Owen McCavana	...	Caesar Scout
Kieran McCormick	...	Scout
Joe McGann	...	Chief Insp. Tomelty
Alan McKee	...	Supercillious official
Breffni McKenna	...	Webster
Aine Ni Mhuiri	...	Madam Grinns
John Michie	...	Col. Charrington Thurk
Jane Milligan	...	Mrs. Madigan
Mark Mulholland	...	George Devine
J.J. Murphy	...	Furg
Olivia Nash	...	Maudie O'Toole
Richard Ridings	...	Alex Walker
Paddy Scully	...	Rubens Croucher
Ruth Urquhart	...	Miss Murphy
Steven James Watson	...	Extra / Water-pump boy
Brenda Winter	...	Mrs. Eels
Peter Woodward	...	Col. Martin

Directed by
Terence Ryan

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Spike Milligan		novel
Terence Ryan		screenplay

Produced by
David Bill	....	associate producer
John Briggs	....	associate producer
Jamie Brown	....	executive producer
Jo Gilbert	....	associate producer
Sara Giles	....	associate producer
Theo Gobat	....	associate producer
Stephen Margolis	....	co-executive producer
David McLoughlin	....	co-producer
Kevin Menton	....	co-executive producer
Rainer Mockert	....	executive producer
John Ramsay	....	associate producer
Brooks Riley	....	executive producer
Derek Roy	....	associate producer
Terence Ryan	....	producer
Clare Scully	....	associate producer
Rod Stoneman	....	executive producer
Joan Tuohy	....	associate producer
Ken Tuohy	....	line producer
Ken Tuohy	....	producer

Original Music by
Pol Brennan
Richard Hartley

Cinematography by
Peter Hannan

Film Editing by
Dermot Diskin

Casting by
Dean E. Fronk
Jo Gilbert
Donald Paul Pemrick

Production Design by
Jon Bunker		(as John Bunker)

Art Direction by
Gillian Devenney

Costume Design by
Hazel Webb-Crozier

Makeup Department
Pamela Smyth	....	makeup department head
Vicky Smyth	....	makeup artist
Kelly Tuohy	....	key hair stylist

Production Management
Stephen Killen	....	unit production manager
Declan McGrath	....	post-production supervisor
Helen Murray	....	production manager
Ken Tuohy	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Darren Fee	....	third assistant director
Jules Moore	....	second assistant director
Chris 'Kit' Ryan	....	second assistant director
Kit Ryan	....	second assistant director
Neil Tuohy	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Jim Barr	....	property master
Beverly Craig	....	stand-by painter
Cole Doherty	....	art department trainee
Russell Fulton	....	construction manager
Andrew Garnet-Lawson	....	scenic artist
John Ibbitson	....	stand-by painter
Vincent Kinnaird	....	dressing props
Emer MacAvin	....	prop buyer
John McCartney	....	dressing props
Pat McKane	....	stand-by props
Alan Nixon	....	stand-by carpenter
William Simpson	....	stand-by props
William Simpson	....	storyboard artist
Paul Stewart	....	props

Sound Department
Barry Cassidy	....	sound trainee
Daniel Crowley	....	sound engineer
Michelle Cunniffe	....	foley recordist
Michelle Cunniffe	....	sound re-recording mixer
Brendan Deasy	....	sound mixer
Jean-Raphaël Dedieu	....	sound editor
Caoimhe Doyle	....	foley artist
Mark Duff	....	sound effects editor
John Fitzgerald	....	sound re-recording mixer
Martin Fitzpatrick	....	assistant sound editor
Fionn Higgins	....	sound editor
André Jacquemin	....	sound designer
André Jacquemin	....	sound
Jenny Lee Wright	....	foley artist
Jean McGrath	....	adr recordist
Hugo Monks	....	sound editor
Mervyn Moore	....	sound recordist
Douglas Murray	....	sound re-recording mixer
Dan Ortiz	....	adr mixer: Los Angeles
Gerard Roche	....	adr mixer
Jon Stevenson	....	supervising sound editor
Trevor Swanscott	....	adr mixer: London
Robert Thompson	....	adr mixer: London

Special Effects by
Rob Liddington	....	special effects technician
Martin Neill	....	special effects technician
Dominic Tuohy	....	special effects coordinator
Dominic Tuohy	....	special effects supervisor

Visual Effects by
Andrea Adams	....	3D artist
Nick Bedford	....	digital effects production assistant: Peerless Camera Co
Martin Body	....	rotoscope artist
Steve Cutmore	....	2D artist
John Paul Docherty	....	visual effects supervisor
Andy Fowler	....	digital effects producer (as Andrew Fowler)
John Swinnerton	....	2D artist
John Swinnerton	....	compositor
Pat Wong	....	digital compositor

Stunts
Paul Burke	....	stunt double
Brendan Condren	....	stunts
Joe Condren	....	stunt coordinator (as Jo Condren)
Patrick Condren	....	stunts (as Paddy Condren)
Ken Doherty	....	stunts
Norman Kelly	....	stunts
Bronco McLoughlin	....	stunts
Paul Valentine	....	stunt double

Camera and Electrical Department
Chas Bain	....	additional photographer
Lisa Carville	....	still photographer
Sean Craig	....	generator operator
Fiona Deasy	....	camera loader
Shane Deasy	....	focus puller
Philip Fitzsimons	....	generator operator
Conor Hammond	....	second focus puller
Glynn Harrison	....	grip
Thomas Hassan	....	camera trainee
Martin Holland	....	electrician
Brian Livingstone	....	gaffer
Seamus Lynch	....	electrician
Brett McCrum	....	electrician
Angus Mitchell	....	camera loader
Luke Quigley	....	grip
Stefan Stankowski	....	camera operator

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Nuala McCaffrey	....	senior costume assistant
Caroline McCall	....	costume assistant
Louise Stewart	....	junior costume assistant
Rachael Webb-Crozier	....	wardrobe assistant

Editorial Department
Peter Ferrari	....	color grader
Bill Jones	....	additional editor
Wayne Jones	....	negative cutting assistant
Declan McGrath	....	assistant editor
Jason Wheeler	....	negative cutter
Sylvia Wheeler	....	negative cutter

Music Department
Geoff Alexander	....	orchestrator
Pol Brennan	....	orchestrator
Hugh Donoghue	....	musician: piano
Ben Findlay	....	musician: Jew's harp
Richard Hartley	....	orchestrator
Tommy Kane	....	musician: viola
Emer Mayock	....	musician: whistles
Una Ni Channain	....	musician: cello
M.J. O'Carroll	....	musician: electric guitar

Transportation Department
Alan Crozier	....	transportation captain
Colin McCarthy	....	tracking vehicle operator

Other crew
Karen Bennett	....	animal trainer
Biggy Bigmore	....	stand-in
Gerald Fitzsimon	....	production accountant
Nial Fulton	....	location coordinator
Louise Gaffney	....	script supervisor
Chiara-Jane Grindle	....	location assistant
Nathan Hogg	....	stand-in
Barry Keil	....	floor runner
Stephen Killen	....	unit location manager
Gerry Lundberg	....	unit publicist
Anne Lyttle	....	choreographer
Angela McClune	....	production assistant
Margaret McGaffin	....	production trainee
Colin McIvor	....	location manager
Magnus McLeod	....	assistant to producer
Bronco McLoughlin	....	animal trainer
Cathy Mooney	....	account assistant
Susan Morrall	....	script editor
Sinead O'Doherty	....	assistant publicist
Roger Phillips	....	title designer
Caroline Sax	....	script supervisor
Benjamin Sloan	....	production trainee
Michelle Walsh	....	production coordinator
Sabine Wührer	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• Bórd Scannán na hÉireann
• Distinguished Features
• Insight Ventures Limited
• MBP (Germany)
• NatWest Ventures
• National Lottery
• Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission
• Studio Eight Productions
• VCL Communications GmbH
• Y2K Productions

Distributors

• Guerilla Films (2003) (UK) (all media)
• United Artists

Special Effects

• Peerless Camera Company (digital effects)

Other Companies

• Ardmore Sound  sound post-production
• Frameline Productions Ltd.  titles
• Interlock Studios  adr recording
• Sapex Scripts  post-production script
• Westland Studios Dublin  music recorded at
• dB Post Production  adr recording

Runtime:

82 min

Country:

Ireland | UK | Germany

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Finland:K-11 | UK:PG

Filming Locations:

Ballywater Park, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK

Company:

Bórd Scannán na hÉireann

Trivia:

Richard Attenborough plays a "Writer-Director" in this movie. Attenborough is really a director, but he has never worked as a writer.

A few changes, but still as funny as the book.

Saw the film at the closing gala of the Ealing Film Festival in West London(England). Enjoyed it immensely. Although the Crow & the Chinese Policeman don't appear, and Dan Milligan becomes Dan Madigan (played by Sean Hughes (I)). The interaction between Dan and the Author (Writer/Director) voiced/played by Lord Richard Attenborough, works very well.

The rumour is that Lord Attenborough and Elliott Gould (as Dr. Goldstein) appeared in the film for just a pint of beer.

Spike was shown the film, on video before he died and by all accounts enjoyed it immensely.