Movielogr
South Riding (1938)
Directed by Victor Saville
Overview
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.
Length 85 minutes
Actors
Edna Best | Ralph Richardson | Edmund Gwenn | Ann Todd | Marie Lohr | Milton Rosmer | John Clements | Edward Lexy | Joan Ellum | Glynis Johns | Josephine Wilson | Gus McNaughton | Herbert Lomas | Peggy Novak | Lewis Casson | Felix Aylmer | Jean Cadell | Skelton Knaggs | Laura Smithson | Florence Gregson | Beckett Bould | Madge Brindley | Davina Whitehouse | Arthur Hambling | Ralph Truman