Overview:
Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of this British wartime movie illustrating how gossipy talk can result in unknowingly giving valuable information to Nazi spies.| Status: | Released (1942-06-15) |
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| Awards: | 1 win |
| Screen: | Thorold Dickinson, Basil Bartlett, Angus MacPhail |
| Productions: | Army Kinematograph Service, Ealing Studios |
| Production Countries: | United Kingdom |
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Posters
Recommendations
Casts
- 90643: Mervyn Johns - No 23: Mr Davis
- 27939: Nova Pilbeam - Beppie Leemans
- 123901: Reginald Tate - Maj. Richards
- 119359: John Chandos - No 16
- 38999: Stephen Murray - Mr. Barratt
- 10018: Jack Hawkins - Brigade Major Harcourt
- 591020: Geoffrey Hibbert - Pvt. John
Crews
- 253716: Thorold Dickinson - Director - Directing
- 253716: Thorold Dickinson - Writer - Writing
- 566947: Basil Bartlett - Writer - Writing
- 11995: John Dighton - Writer - Writing
- 88880: Angus MacPhail - Writer - Writing
- 3601: Michael Balcon - Producer - Production
- 1202863: Ernest Palmer - Director of Photography - Camera
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Reviews
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Review text:
This isn't so much an action film, as a series of scenarios that convey a message to the watching public that "careless talk costs lives". It started out life as a training film and you can tell by the rather clunky editing that director Thorold Dickinson was thinking on his feet as ....
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