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.
Staring: Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney, Mary Merrall, Geoffrey Hibbert, Joyce Howard, Frank Cellier, Martin Walker, Maire O'Neill, Iris Vandeleur, Marie Ault, Marjorie Rhodes, Sebastian Cabot, Terry Conlin, A. Bromley Davenport, Peter Gawthorne, Muriel George, Philip Godfrey, Kenneth Griffith, Charles Groves, James Harcourt, Mike Johnson, Vi Kaley, Jordan Lawrence, Yvonne Mitchell, Brefni O'Rorke, Leonard Sharp, John Slater, H Victor Weske, Ben Williams, Charles Williams, Ian Wilson, Dennis Wyndham
Runtime: 94 minutes
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