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.
Editing | Michael C. Chorlton | Editor |
Sound | Roy Douglas | Music |
Production | John Baxter | Producer |
Writing | Walter Greenwood | Novel |
Writing | Ronald Gow | Theatre Play |
Sound | Richard Addinsell | Original Music Composer |
Sound | Muir Mathieson | Music |
Writing | Rollo Gamble | Writer |
Writing | Walter Greenwood | Adaptation |
Writing | Barbara K. Emary | Writer |
Directing | John Baxter | Director |
Camera | James Wilson | Director of Photography |