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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> John Baxter (Director)
> James Wilson (Director of Photography)
> Walter Greenwood (Novel)
> Ronald Gow (Theatre Play)
> Walter Greenwood (Adaptation)
> Barbara K. Emary (Writer)
> Rollo Gamble (Writer)