Release Date

01 Aug, 1938

Runtime

01:25: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.

Original Title

South Riding

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Actors

Edna Best

Ralph Richardson

Edmund Gwenn

Ann Todd

Marie Lohr

Milton Rosmer

John Clements

Edward Lexy

Joan Ellum

Glynis Johns

Josephine Wilson

Gus McNaughton

Herbert Lomas

Peggy Novak

Lewis Casson

Felix Aylmer

Jean Cadell

Skelton Knaggs

Laura Smithson

Florence Gregson

Beckett Bould

Crew

Victor Saville

Harry Stradling Sr.

Ian Dalrymple

Donald Bull

Winifred Holtby