South Riding (1938)

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.

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1938-08-01

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Runtime: 85 mins Rating: 7.0

Cast

Glynis Johns

Midge Carne

Ralph Richardson

Robert Carne

Edmund Gwenn

Alfred Huggins

Milton Rosmer

Alderman Snaith

John Clements

Joe Astell

Felix Aylmer

Chairman of Council

Edna Best

Sarah Barton

Ralph Truman

Nursing Home Doctor

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South Riding (1938)

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