1941-06-28 • 1h 34m

Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.

Directors

John Baxter

Writters

Barbara K. Emary, Rollo Gamble

Editors

Barbara K. Emary, Michael C. Chorlton