Billy Campbell Angus Macfadyen Jean Butler Gabriel Byrne Joe McGann John Gordon Sinclair
Cinematography
Gerry Lively
Edited by
Emma E. Hickox
Music by
Richard Hartley
Distributed by
Guerilla Films
Release date
1998 (1998)
Running time
124 min.
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Budget
$6 million
The Brylcreem Boys is a 1998 romantic comedy film set in Ireland during the Second World War. The film, which stars Billy Campbell, Angus Macfadyen, Jean Butler and Gabriel Byrne, was directed and co written by Terence Ryan. The story is set against the extraordinary neutrality arrangements in Ireland during World War II.
The title comes from a popular nickname for the RAF personnel during the period.[1] Not to be confused with the identically titled 1979 BBC2 TV play about RAF Bomber Command.[2]
^Room, Adrian (1983). Dictionary of trade name origins. Routledge. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-7102-0174-4.
^"The Brylcreem Boys (1979)". Archived from the original on 24 August 2017.
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