The Next of Kin
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.
- Production
- Army Kinematograph Service, Ealing Studios
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Cast
Mervyn Johns
No 23: Mr Davis
Nova Pilbeam
Beppie Leemans
Reginald Tate
Maj. Richards
John Chandos
No 16
Stephen Murray
Mr. Barratt
Jack Hawkins
Brigade Major Harcourt
Geoffrey Hibbert
Pvt. John
Philip Friend
Lt. Cummins
Phyllis Stanley
Miss Clare
Mary Clare
Mrs. Webster
Basil Sydney
Naval captain
Joss Ambler
Mr Vemon
Brefni O'Rorke
Brigadier Blunt
David Hutcheson
Intelligence officer
Torin Thatcher
German General
Thora Hird
ATS drover with puncture
Frederick Leister
Colonel
Charles Victor
Neutral Seaman - Irish Joe
Basil Radford
Careless Talker on Train
Naunton Wayne
Careless Talker on Train
Crew
- Director
- Thorold Dickinson
- Producers
- Michael Balcon
- Cinematography
- Ernest Palmer
- Composer
- William Walton
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CinemaSerf
June 26, 2022
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 this project aimed at the military grew into a very important, and effective, counter-espionage tool. It's got quite a formidable cast of serving (or reservist) soldiers including Mervyn Johns, Jack Hawkins, Stephen …