South Riding
01/08/1938
1h 25m



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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


Edna Best
Sarah Barton


Ralph Richardson
Robert Carne


Edmund Gwenn
Alfred Huggins


Ann Todd
Madge Carne


Marie Lohr
Mrs. Beddows


Milton Rosmer
Alderman Snaith


John Clements
Joe Astell
Edward Lexy
Mr. Holly
Joan Ellum
Lydia Holly


Glynis Johns
Midge Carne
Josephine Wilson
Mrs. Holly


Gus McNaughton
Tadman


Herbert Lomas
Castle


Peggy Novak
Bessie Warbuckle


Lewis Casson
Lord Sedgmire


Felix Aylmer
Chairman of Council


Jean Cadell
Miss Dry


Skelton Knaggs
Reg. Aythorne


Laura Smithson
Mrs. Brimsley


Florence Gregson
Mrs. Molton
Beckett Bould
Foreman on Road Building Site
Madge Brindley
A Psalm Singer
Davina Whitehouse


Arthur Hambling
Village Doctor


Ralph Truman
Nursing Home Doctor
George Spence
Man Listening to Chairman of Council Speech (uncredited)
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