About
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.
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Studio
Victor Saville Productions, London Films Productions
Cast
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Edna Best
Sarah Barton
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Ralph Richardson
Robert Carne
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Edmund Gwenn
Alfred Huggins
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Ann Todd
Madge Carne
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Marie Lohr
Mrs. Beddows
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Milton Rosmer
Alderman Snaith
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John Clements
Joe Astell
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Edward Lexy
Mr. Holly
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Glynis Johns
Midge Carne
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Josephine Wilson
Mrs. Holly
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Gus McNaughton
Tadman
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Herbert Lomas
Castle
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Peggy Novak
Bessie Warbuckle
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Lewis Casson
Lord Sedgmire
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Felix Aylmer
Chairman of Council
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Jean Cadell
Miss Dry
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Skelton Knaggs
Reg. Aythorne
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Laura Smithson
Mrs. Brimsley
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Florence Gregson
Mrs. Molton
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Beckett Bould
Foreman on Road Building Site
