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WISE GUYS

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Genres:

  • Comedy
  • Crime

People/organisations:

  • Scottish Screen Collection

Series:

  • Tartan shorts

Decade:

  • 2000s

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Title: WISE GUYS

Reference number: 7874

Date: 2003

Director: d. Adrian J. McDowall

Sponsor: BBC Scotland, Scottish Screen

Producer: John Archer

Production company: Hopscotch Films

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 9.58 mins

Description: William always wanted to be a gangster. He turns his paper round into a racket and soon he’s living like a made guy. Just like in the mob movies he loves, things quickly get out of control... [synopsis from Scottish Screen brochure "New Scottish Short Films 2003"]

Screened at 57th Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2003.

Tartan Shorts: A joint short film initiative funded by BBC Scotland and Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund. Three films per year commissioned for theatrical release and broadcast.

Credits: w. Simon Stephenson
cinematographer Martin Radich
p. design Laura Donnelly
ed. Mark Jenkins

William Anthony Martin
Michael Jamie Quinn
Bobby Jonathan Carlin
Pauline Lorraine McIntosh
Anne-Marie Lori McNeill
Mrs McGuire Nicki Valenti
Italian Man