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The Next of Kin is a British film of genre Drama directed by Thorold Dickinson with Mervyn Johns
The Next of Kin (1942)
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Add to a movie listLength 1h42
Directed by Thorold Dickinson
OriginUnited-kingdom
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Rating67%
The Next of Kin, also known as Next of Kin, is a 1942 World War II propaganda film produced by Ealing Studios.
The film was originally commissioned by the British War Office as a training film to promote the government propaganda message that "Careless talk costs lives". After being taken on by Ealing Studios, the project was expanded and given a successful commercial release.
After World War II and up until at least the mid 1960s, services in British Commonwealth countries continued to use The Next of Kin as part of security training.
Synopsis
The British army is preparing an attack on a German-held French port. German intelligence use agents in England to discover the intended target by piecing together information from different sources, including conversations overheard in pubs, railway stations, shops and other public places.Actors
Mervyn Johns
(No 23: Mr Davis)
Nova Pilbeam
(Beppie Leemans)
John Chandos
(No 16)
Jack Hawkins
(Brigade Major Harcourt)
Reginald Tate
(Maj. Richards)
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