South Riding (1938)

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.

Cast

Sarah Barton
Robert Carne
Bessie Warbuckle
Lord Sedgmire
Chairman of Council
Miss Dry
Reg. Aythorne
Mrs. Brimsley
Alfred Huggins
Foreman on Road Building Site
A Psalm Singer
Village Doctor
Nursing Home Doctor
Madge Carne
Mrs. Beddows
Alderman Snaith
Joe Astell
Mr. Holly
Lydia Holly
Midge Carne

Crew

Director of Photography
Screenplay