The Brylcreem Boys cont.    
   
The room interiors were built within existing barrack halls at the location. Rooms were divided to create the right size space, with the ability to "float" (remove) walls to facilitate easier shooting. The concept in this room was to show the complete opposite of what we might normally expect in a prison camp room, because the interns were allowed in and out of the camp we wanted to show that they had the ability to decorate with abandon. As this picture of the corner of the room shows, they had more than the comforts of a regular prison camp, including a musical cocktail cabinet!    
Manx Tails magazine (pun on the tail-less cats from the Isle of Man) which used shot of Gabriel Byrne and Bill Campbell for a cover article on Filming in the Isle of Man.    
 

The main town square was shot in Castletown on the South of the Island. As much of the modern technology was removed or hidden and the asphalt ground treated with dirt. The central Celtic cross was built ( the cross carved from styrofoam) painted and aged.
The period vehicles were supplied by existing collectors on the Isle of Man, with the horses and carts supplied locally too.
The bus that the interns are shipped out in was again supplied by the Isle of Man Bus service, as they happened to have the right period vehicle in their fleet. It took a lot of effort to get it up and running as it was a museum piece. Sadly on this day it couldn't keep up the pace and the shot of it leaving the town square in the film is achieved by towing it out behind another vehicle. The beginning of this shot had the towing vehicle hidden by a passing car. The passing car with a coffin tied to its roof was one of those incongruous images of Ireland that I came across in research and felt compelled to use.

 

  
       
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