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South Riding
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.
| Release : | 1938 |
| Rating : | 6.7 |
| Studio : | London Films Productions, Victor Saville Productions, |
| Crew : | Director of Photography, Director, |
| Cast : | Edna Best Ralph Richardson Edmund Gwenn Ann Todd Marie Lohr |
| Genre : | Drama Romance |
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Simply A Masterpiece
Excellent, Without a doubt!!
Absolutely brilliant
It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.
