The Day the Fish Came Out

The Day the Fish Came Out Greece Otan ta psaria vgikan sti steria is a 1967 GreekBritish comedy film directed and written by Michael Cacoyannis who also designed the films costumes. The film stars Tom Courtenay, Colin Blakely and Sam Wanamaker.

Life on the remote Greek resort island of Karos is forever changed when atomic bombs are dropped there by a NATO plane rapidly losing power. Life on the island is so bleak that the inhabitants stage a mass exodus on news that Denmark has opened Greenland to Greek emigration. The pilots drop their payload which includes atomic weapons, but also a mysterious package called simply Container Q over land, because they are under orders not to drop at sea. The hapless pilots bail out and reach the island with no equipment or means to contact their headquarters, and only their underwear. Lacking resources, money to buy food or pay for a long distance call to base or even their clothes, the pilot and navigator of the lost bomber scour the island like vagabonds. Unknown to the pilots, the Americans have already deployed their own operation a team of agents disguised as resort developers. The pilots are clueless as to the fact that American agents are also on the island searching for their cargo.Meanwhile, the island is suddenly filled with clamoring, hedonistic tourists who believe the developer is going to build the best resort in the area first. Unknown to all of them, a poor farmer and his wife find Container Q and, presuming it holds some treasure, they try to open it. Unsuccessful at first because Container Q is virtually impregnable the farmer eventually steals a device that sprays acid that will eat through anything. Expecting gold, the farmer and his wife instead find strangelooking rocks. The Americans are eventually led back to the farmers, but not before the panicking farmers ditch Container Q into the sea, and the rocks into a cistern that provides water to the rest of the island. The contents of Q presumably highly toxic thus contaminate all the water used by the islands inhabitants. ........

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