![]() Having survived the horrors of a world war some decades previously, the couple believe they’ll make it through all right this time round. Voiced with suitable gravitas by Mills and Ashcroft, two pillars of the British acting world, they are sweetly sketched and believable figures from a Britain where nuclear annihilation was always lurking uneasily at the back of the general public’s minds.īeing good citizens they read their government pamphlets that tell them, with typical coldness, to prepare for the worst and they build a miserable little lean-to shelter that they pile high with Hilda’s scatter cushions positioned just so to soak up the post-apocalypse radiation. In the affable and depressingly ordinary couple of James and Hilda we have everyday figures whose gruesome fate is rendered all the more grim because of their mundane surroundings. Originally released in 1986, it tells the tale of a likable old couple, James and Hilda (voiced by Sir John Mills and Dame Peggy Ashcroft), who live out a simple life in the English countryside that is suddenly thrown into turmoil when the threat of imminent nuclear destruction rears its ugly head.Īs neat little moral tales go, it couldn’t be further from The Snowman, Briggs’s much more fondly thought of animated epic, if it tried. ![]() ![]() BASED on the Raymond Briggs story of the same name, When The Wind Blows is the kind of low key British animation that stays with you long after the credits roll. ![]()
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