Is Your Phone Tapped (1957)

London. CU. Phone on desk and a hand comes in to lift off the receiver. A voice says “Is that you Nasser?“ CU. Man’s shoulders, back view, he is listening on phone says “It is not wise to speak on the phone, you may be tapped.“ GV. Interior, Telephone Exchange, & AS. GV. Whitehall. CU. Name plate “Home Office.“ SCU. Home Secretary Mr Butler sitting at desk. GV. Barrister Mr Patrick Narriman, whose phone was tapped, walking towards Pathe reporter Bill Symon. CU. Mr Narriman. CU. Newspaper headlines “Phone Tapping Storm“ and “What I Said on the Phone, by Billy Hill.“ LV. Billy Hill, self-confessed criminal, notorious underworld leader of Soho, sitting on bench in Regent’s Park as Bill Symon approaches him. SV. Symon shakes hands with him and they sit down. CU. Billy Hill. CU. Tape recorder spinning round. SV. Eve Samuels having conversation with Stewart Farrar (natural sound): “I have had wonderful luck with customs. I could have got thousands of cigarettes through.“ SV. Stewart Farrar answering (natural sou
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