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South Riding (1938)
Directed by Victor Saville
Drama, Romance · 1h 25m
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.
Cast
Edna Best
Sarah Barton
Ralph Richardson
Robert Carne
Edmund Gwenn
Alfred Huggins
Ann Todd
Madge Carne
Marie Lohr
Mrs. Beddows
Milton Rosmer
Alderman Snaith
John Clements
Joe Astell
Glynis Johns
Midge Carne
Gus McNaughton
Tadman
Crew
- Director
- Victor Saville
- Screenplay
- Ian Dalrymple, Donald Bull
- Novel
- Winifred Holtby
- Director of Photography
- Harry Stradling Sr.
Details
- Release date
- 1938-08-01
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Victor Saville Productions, London Films Productions