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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. The screenplay was by Sinclair, a former Coldstream Guards National service officer, adapted from his 1959 novel of the same name.
Jul 25, 2014 · This scene from the little-seen 'The Breaking of Bumbo' shows Joanna Lumley and John Bird as would-be revolutionaries, whilst Bumbo (Richard Warwick) looks on.
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- Andrew Sinclair
- Richard Warwick
The Breaking of Bumbo is a 1970 British comedy film written and directed by Andrew Sinclair, a former Coldstream Guards National service officer, that was adapted from his 1959 novel of the same name that featured the Suez Crisis.
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 for his future.
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.
