GB
2018
1hr 36mins
Dir: Rob Burrows
Starring: Patrick Bergin and Vivien Taylor
Family life is disrupted after the husband’s best friend turns into a zombie
This little known comedy drama won best hair, make-up and body design at the London Festival of World Cinema in February 2018. Its title comes from the fact that one of the cast finds solace in what was every little boys’ favourite toy. It has a number of scenes filmed at the Bowes Railway near Gateshead. The heritage railway is home to the world’s only operational preserved standard gauge cable railway system but this does not appear in the film. A little industrial shunter does, however, in the form of Ruston & Hornsby 88DS 4wPM W/no.476140/1963. There is also a shot of an HST crossing Newcastle High Level Bridge.