South Riding
1 hour 25 minutes1938-08-01
6.2
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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
