Linda (1960)

Interesting facts

Linda is a 1960 British second feature teen drama film, directed by Don Sharp and starring Carol White and Alan Rothwell. It was written by Bill MacIlwraith.

Production

Don Sharp was offered the job of directing by Independent Artists who were pleased with the work he had just done for them on The Professionals (1960). The film was made for Bryanston Films, and designed to play the bottom half of a double bill. Filming began on 23 May 1960 at Beaconsfield.

The film was shot over 15 days, on location in south London and Brighton. Don Sharp said the key to making a film with such a tight schedule was preplanning. He said, "Obviously you cannot do all the covering that you might on a longer schedule. So you plan to eliminate cover shots wherever possible to give yourself extra time for those sequences where you need them for dramatic cutting."

In her autobiography, White called the film "an unmemorable B flick" in which her character "was a vulnerable, amazingly stupid girl from south of the river". She recalled, "We spent days and days on location at Battersea Fun Fair, the icy wind like cold fingers up my dress as I went from whirlygigs to the big wheel, every shot being repeated until the director managed to film me with a dumb, exhilarated grin and my legs wide open."

Carol White had recently appeared in Never Let Go (1960) but Linda was her first starring role. She later starred in Gaolbreak (1962) which she described as "the story appearing to carry on where Linda had left off."

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