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Title: ALABAMA

Reference number: 7255

Date: 1990

Director: d. Jim Shields

Sponsor: National Film and Television School, Scottish Film Production Fund

Producer: Kate Swan

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 34.00 mins

Description: An energetic farce and a very silly plot involving a psychotic killer with amnesia, a nurse who wants both her dream man and a ticket to Alabama to find her long-lost father, and a helpless hitman homing in on the killer.
[Synopsis distilled from a variety of sources: ‘Sight and Sound’, ‘Monthly Film Bulletin’, Edinburgh International Film Festival Programmes and the Scottish Screen Archive Catalogue, Scottish Screen Publicity Material]

Production file held at National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive. Shown at Edinburgh International Film Festival, 1990. Originally shot on 16mm film. Student film.

Credits: Cast:
Julie Applegate Louise Beattie
Frank Tashlin Paul Birchard
Webster Gilbert Martin
Miss Havesham Elspet Cameron
Mr MacGuffin Jimmy Logan
Daddy Jake D'Arcy
Young Julie Calre O'Dinnell
Tina / Receptionists Anne Swan
Bellhop Paul Hickey
Dr. Zhivago John McGlynn
Theatre Nures 1 Caroline Bonnieman
Theatre Nurse 2 Lynn Ferguson
Doctor LeTuce Brian Keeley
Worried mother Liz Ingram

Thanks to all our extras

Crew:
focus puller Jeremy R.S. Kelly
clapper / loader Gordon Gronbach
key grip Lewis Buchan
grips Malcolm Smith, Klive Drake
gaffer Len O'Brien
best boy Stewart Freeman
boom operator Fiona Carlin
art d. Simon Gillow, Alex Ward
art dept. ass. Kathryn Bennett, Alan Michael, Andy Spencer, Melinda Trost
props maker Genevieve Tester
carpenter Colin Davidson
standby props Tony Sheridan
costume design Laura Gompertz, Rachel Bell
make-up and hair Tony Cornish
make-up ass. Sarah Dickinson
first ass. d. Sally Charlton
2nd ass. d. Alison Goning
p. ass. Annie Hendry, Harry Boyd, Lou Spain
unit stills Sandy Grigor
continuity Mario Almeida, Janine Burke
runner Katie Hill
location man. Fergus Mitchell
locations ass. Andrew MacDonald
rushes ed. David Gibson
ed. ass. Katherine Glass, Liz Ingram

"I'm Alabbammy Bound" performed by Lonnie Donegan. sd. rec. courtesy of Castle Communications PLC. Copyright 1925 Shapiro Bernstein & Co. Inc.. Subpublished by Keith Prowse Music Publishing Co. Ltd.

"Diamonds" performed by Barry Adamson. Recording courtesy of Mute Records Ltd. 1989.

original music score Julian Nott

Thanks to Aggreko Generators, Astrohome, BBC Visual Effects Department, Budget (Glasgow Airport), Fuji Film, GHS Motion Picture Services, Tunnocks, Inverclyde Hospital, QMR Partnerships, Technicolor, Pride of the Clyde Coaches, Ruth Farko Agency, Royal Victoria Hospital, Helensburgh, Scottish TV, Scottish Film Training Trust, United Biscuits, Strathclyde Regional Council, Youngs Casting, Scottish Council for Educational Technology, Tennent Caledonian Breweries, Peter Mayo, Squire Sound and Lighting, Soozy Mealing, The Pond Hotel, Glasgow, Lynn Aitken, Michael Reilly, Craig Swan, Dominic Savage, Nigel Horn, Neil Grimshaw

p. man. John Booth
ed. Mark Pearson
p. designer Cas Stewart
sd. rec / sd. ed. Simon Chirgwin
d. ph. Gavin Finney
w. Jim Shields and Brian Keeley
p. Kate Swan

Copyright NFTS MCMCX