The Day the Fish Came Out

The Day the Fish Came Out (Greece: Otan ta psaria vgikan sti steria) is a 1967 Greek- British comedy film directed and written by Michael Cacoyannis. The film stars Tom Courtenay, Colin Blakely and Sam Wanamaker.

Plot Summary

Life on a remote Greek resort island is forever changed when two atomic bombs are accidentally dropped there when a NATO plane flies overhead. This comedy chronicles those changes. When the pilots realize they've lost their load, they bail out of their plane and head for the island to get help. The government has beaten them to the punch though and has already sent out an agent disguised as a resort developer. All of them are busily looking for the missing weapons when the island is suddenly filled with clamoring, hedonistic tourists who believe the developer is going to build the best resort in the area first.

When the Aegean fish living just off the island begin to mysteriously die, everyone there realizes that the jig is finally up and they so give in to their wildest desires.

Cast

Tom Courtenay as The Navigator
Colin Blakely as The Pilot
Sam Wanamaker as Elias
Candice Bergen as Electra Brown
Ian Ogilvy as Peter
Dimitris Nikolaidis as The Dentist
Nicolas Alexios as Goatherd
Patricia Burke as Mrs. Mavroyannis
Paris Alexander as Fred
Arthur Mitchell as Frank
Marlena Carrer as Goatherd's Wife
Tom Klunis as Mr. French
William Berger as Man in Bed
Kostas Papakonstantinou as Manolios
Dora Stratou as Travel Agent
Alexander Lykourezos as Director of Tourism
Tom Whitehead as Mike
Walter Granecki as Base Commander
Dimitris Ioakeimidis as Policeman (as Demetris Ioakimides)
James Connolly as Tourist
Assi Dayan as Tourist
Robert Killian as Tourist
Derek Kulai as Tourist
Alexis Mann as Tourist (as Alexis Mantheakis)
Raymond McWilliams as Tourist
Michael Radford as Tourist
Peter Robinson as Tourist
Grigoris Stefanides as Tourist
Peter Stratful as Tourist
Kosta Timvios as Tourist
Herbert Zeichner as Tourist

Directed by Michael Cacoyannis
Produced by Michael Cacoyannis
Written by Michael Cacoyannis
Starring Tom Courtenay
Colin Blakely
Sam Wanamaker
Music by Mikis Theodorakis
Cinematography Walter Lassally
Editing by Vassilis Syropoulos
Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox
Release date(s) October 2, 1967
Running time 109 min.
Country Greece / U.K. / U.S.A.
Language English
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