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- BFI identifier14573
- Date1940-05 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisA dramatised story illustrating the ease with which careless talk may give away vital secrets: a disgruntled factory worker enables enemy agents to blow up an explosives laboratory. (NFA Catalogue) Short showing results of information given away by a lorry driver working at an aeroplane factory. (Synopsis) Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant worker, who lets slip vital information about some overnight research on a captured enemy aircraft. This inevitably leads to this most important of secrets falling into the lap of the enemy. (Synopsis)
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- CreditsDirector: John Paddy Carstairs
Production Company: Ealing Studios
Sponsor: Ministry of Information
view all - CastSebastian Shaw (Charles Hampton)
Dorothy Hyson (Mrs Hampton)
Edward Chapman (Alf Small)
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Title
Now You're Talking (Original)
Category
Fiction (Public Record)This work is available from BFI Archive Sales
This work is available to view in the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank.
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- Film / Video
- Scripts / DocumentsCatalogue of the Central Film Library - Contains overview of available copies, how to apply and loan copies and a list of the available titles on different topics: Britain in arms, Strength of the British Empire, Men and Armaments, Food Front, Health and Education, Salvage and Savings. The films are listed with their index number, title, short synopsis, length and size. - HFO-1-6-1
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Work - 14573 - 1940-05 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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