The AM Forum
May 10, 2024, 03:13:43 PM *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
 
   Home   Help Calendar Links Staff List Gallery Login Register  
Pages: [1]   Go Down
  Print  
Author Topic: The Boat That Rocked  (Read 1654 times)
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
k4kyv
Contributing Member
Don
Member

Offline Offline

Posts: 10037



« on: September 05, 2009, 05:19:50 AM »

"The Boat That Rocked" is an ensemble comedy in which the romance takes place between the young people of the '60s and pop music. It's about a band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that, incomprehensibly, preferred jazz. The Count, a big, brash, American god of the airwaves; Quentin, the boss of Radio Rock -- a pirate radio station in the middle of the North Sea that's populated by an eclectic crew of rock and roll DJs; Gavin, the greatest DJ in Britain who has just returned from his drug tour of America to reclaim his rightful position; Dave, an ironic, intelligent and cruelly funny co-broadcaster; and a fearsome British government official out for blood against the drug takers and lawbreakers of a once-great nation.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1131729/plotsummary
Logged

Don, K4KYV                                       AMI#5
Licensed since 1959 and not happy to be back on AM...    Never got off AM in the first place.

- - -
This message was typed using the DVORAK keyboard layout.
http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak
Sam KS2AM
Contributing
Member
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 708



WWW
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2009, 11:21:16 AM »

I saw The Boat That Rocked on the plane coming back from vacation last week.  Its a good film.  Lots of sex and drugs and Rock and Roll.  The boat in the film looks kind of like the one on the QSL card I got from Radio Nordsee in the 70's.
Interestingly, the American DJ called "The Count" bears a resemblance to a certain New England AM'er. 

Trailers:

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi34800409/
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi96141849/


Sam / KS2AM
Logged

--- Post No Bills ---
Pages: [1]   Go Up
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

AMfone - Dedicated to Amplitude Modulation on the Amateur Radio Bands
 AMfone © 2001-2015
Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines
Page created in 0.052 seconds with 18 queries.