The Blockhouse was based on a real-life horror story. In 1951 French workers accidentally unearthed two men who had been trapped underground for six years.
Six labourers, forced to work for the Nazis, had taken shelter in a concrete bunker to escape an Allied naval bombardment on D-Day and had been sealed off by tons of rubble.
By the light of matches, they found vast stores of food and wine in connecting tunnels and boxes of candles which provided light for two years.
The two survivors had been in total blackness for the past four years.
The movie was directed by Clive Rees in 1973 but was not released until 1978. It starred Peter Sellers, Charles Aznavour, Per Oscarsson, Peter Vaughan, Jeremy Kemp, Leon Lissek, Nicholas Jones and Alfred Lynch.
Rouquet
Peter Sellers Visconti
Charles Aznavour Lund
Per Oscarsson Aufret
Peter Vaughan Grabinski
Jeremy Kemp Khozek
Leon Lissek Kramer
Nicholas Jones Larshen
Alfred Lynch
Director
Clive Rees
Related Posts
Evacuees, The (1975) This television play was broadcast on BBC2 on 5 March 1975. It was written by Jack Rosenthal (he won a…
Chosen Survivors (1974) A group of people who have unknowingly been handpicked by the government to restart the human race are kidnapped, drugged…
Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Sonny Wortzik (Al Pacino) is up against it in Dog Day Afternoon, directed by Sidney Lumet. He has a mountain of debts,…
Straw Dogs (1971) Sam Peckinpah's controversial film about David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman), an American mathematician, and Amy (Susan George), his young beautiful wife,…
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) Alec Guinness is Adolf Hitler trapped in his bunker while Berlin burns 60 feet above him. This biographical film claims…
Amityville Horror, The (1979) The Amityville Horror is of course not the only horror film to inspire a collection of truly terrible sequels (eight in…
ZPG (Zero Population Growth) (1972) "Smog covers the Earth. The oxygen is depleted. Love is encouraged but the penalty for birth is death." The population…
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly (1970) Sexy, immature teenager Girly (Vanessa Howard) and her camera-wielding brother Sonny (Howard Trevor) bring home unsuspecting bums and hippies to…
The movie was directed by Clive Rees in 1973 but was not released until 1978. It starred Peter Sellers, Charles Aznavour, Per Oscarsson, Peter Vaughan, Jeremy Kemp, Leon Lissek, Nicholas Jones and Alfred Lynch.
Aufret
