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ScreenPlay Firsts: Careless Talk

on BBC Two England

by NOELLA SMITH
The first in a series of five short films by new young British film-makers.
The Isle of Man, 1940. A group of women find themselves behind barbed wire. All branded as 'enemy aliens', they have been interned for the duration of the war.
Friendships soon give way to tensions in this strange kind of prison.
Winner of the 1985 Bafta Award for the Best Short
Film. The film was made at the National Film School. Cast includes:
Lighting camera TOM MCDOUGAL Art director DENNIS DE GROOT Film editor BILL SHAPTER Directed by NOELLA SMITH

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom McDougal
Unknown:
Art Director Dennis
Directed By:
Noella Smith
Dora:
Kate Percival
Maria:
Sarah Parry
Peter:
Colin Loose

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