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  1. Dangerous Comment (1939 Film)

    Director
    John Paddy Carstairs
    Producer
    Michael Balcon
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    One of three CARELESS TALK films. Professionally made, but even on release it was felt to be remote from the lives of ordinary people, its heroes too upper class and its traitors too inevitably working...

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  2. Went the Day Well? (1942)

    Director
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Producer
    Michael Balcon
    Subject
    English language and literature; Film studies; History; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £15.99

    Feature film from a story by Graham Greene. The village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops dsguised as British soldiers as part of Hitler’s plan for the invasion of Britain. Music by William...

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  3. Ladykillers, The (1955 Film)

    Director
    Alexander Mackendrick
    Producer
    Michael Balcon; Seth Holt
    Subject
    Media studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Feature film. Mrs Louisa Wilberforce, a widow living alone in a Victorian house near St Pancras station, rents her upstairs room to a mysterious ‘Professor Marcus’, who meets with four oddly assorted...

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  4. Next of Kin (1942 Film, Video)

    Director
    Thorold Dickinson
    Producer
    Michael Balcon
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The most powerful and realistic of all the ‘careless talk’ films. This feature film tells the story of a raid on a submarine pen on the North West coast of France. A well organised German spy ring, much...

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  5. They Came to a City (1944)

    Director
    Basil Dearden
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (78 minutes), £14.99

    Nine disparate Britons are transported to a mysterious city where, according to their class and disposition, they find themselves either in an earthly paradise of peace and equality or a hell starved of...

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