South Riding

08/01/1938

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1hr 25min

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Drama

,Romance

STORY

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 & CREW

    Cast

  • Edna Best
  • Ralph Richardson
  • Edmund Gwenn
  • Ann Todd
  • Marie Lohr

    Director

  • Victor Saville

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Victor Saville Productions
  • London Films Productions

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • English