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Cathy Come Home
Film / 1966

Cathy Come Home

Directed by Ken Loach
DramaTV movie

★ 7.0/10Audience rating

Cathy and Reg are a couple with three young children, who find their life spiralling into poverty when Reg loses his well-paid job. Gripping and emotional, Cathy Come Home remains a truly ground-breaking piece of dramatic fiction, engaging viewers with social issues, such as homelessness, unemployment and the rights of mothers to keep their own children.

The story

Cathy and Reg are a couple with three young children, who find their life spiralling into poverty when Reg loses his well-paid job. Gripping and emotional, Cathy Come Home remains a truly ground-breaking piece of dramatic fiction, engaging viewers with social issues, such as homelessness, unemployment and the rights of mothers to keep their own children.

Cast

Carol WhiteCathy Ward Ray BrooksReg Ward Wally PatchGrandad Adrienne FrameEileen Winifred DennisMrs. Ward Emmett HennessyJohnny Alec ColemanWedding Guest Geoffrey PalmerProperty Agent Gabrielle HamiltonWelfare Officer Phyllis HicksonMrs. Alley Frank VeaseyMr. Hodge Barry JacksonRent Collector
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James BentonMan at Eviction Ruth KettlewellJudge John BaddeleyHousing Officer Kathleen BroadhurstLandlady Ralph LawtonHealth Inspector Lennard PearceRatepayer

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