Punk Can Take It

IMDb 6.0 1979 • 19 min • ComedyWarDocumentaryMusic

Director

Julien Temple

Country

GB

Plot Summary

Julien Temple's wartime documentary parody "Punk Can Take It" (1979) - a theatrically released promo for the UK Subs, complete with narration by BBC voice-over veteran John Snagge - paints a glorious picture of England in a punk rock "identity crisis". Punk morale was higher than ever before. Punks were fused together not by fear, but by a surging spirit of revenge, immortality, and the courage never to submit or yield. This proved that punk won't go away and that punks themselves are becoming younger and nastier everyday. They have no time for the precarious thrills of nostalgia nor for its trivial rules.

Top Cast

Julia Binstead
Julia Binstead
Edward Tudor-Pole
Edward Tudor-Pole Ed Tudor Pole
Helen Wellington-Lloyd
Helen Wellington-Lloyd
UK Subs
UK Subs Themselves
John Snagge
John Snagge Narrator (voice)