South Riding
South Riding
Release: 1938-08-01
·Runtime: 85m
·★ 6.2
Drama
Romance
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Victor Saville Productions
London Films Productions
Cast
Glynis Johns
as Midge Carne
Lewis Casson
as Lord Sedgmire
Felix Aylmer
as Chairman of Council
Jean Cadell
as Miss Dry
Ralph Truman
as Nursing Home Doctor
Ralph Richardson
as Robert Carne
Edmund Gwenn
as Alfred Huggins
Marie Lohr
as Mrs. Beddows
John Clements
as Joe Astell
Gus McNaughton
as Tadman
Herbert Lomas
as Castle
Laura Smithson
as Mrs. Brimsley
Ann Todd
as Madge Carne
Milton Rosmer
as Alderman Snaith
Peggy Novak
as Bessie Warbuckle
Arthur Hambling
as Village Doctor
Edna Best
as Sarah Barton
Skelton Knaggs
as Reg. Aythorne