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Marie Ault | Mrs. Jike | |
George Carney | Mr. Hardcastle | |
Peter Gawthorne | Police Supt | |
Frank Cellier | Sam Grundy | |
A. Bromley Davenport | ||
Deborah Kerr | Sally | |
Clifford Evans | Larry | |
Mary Merrall | Mrs. Hardcastle | |
Geoffrey Hibbert | Harry | |
Joyce Howard | Helen | |
Martin Walker | Ned Narkey | |
Maire O'Neill | Mrs. Dorbell | |
Iris Vandeleur | Mrs. Nattle | |
Marjorie Rhodes | Mrs. Bull | |
Sebastian Cabot | Man in Crowd - at the betting payout |
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Producer | Walter Greenwood
John Baxter |
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Writer | Walter Greenwood
Ronald Gow |
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Musician | Richard Addinsell
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Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time. |
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