South Riding

L’histoire

Résumé en anglais

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.

Distribution

E Edna BestSarah Barton R Ralph RichardsonRobert Carne E Edmund GwennAlfred Huggins A Ann ToddMadge Carne M Marie LohrMrs. Beddows M Milton RosmerAlderman Snaith J John ClementsJoe Astell E Edward LexyMr. Holly J Joan EllumLydia Holly G Glynis JohnsMidge Carne J Josephine WilsonMrs. Holly G Gus McNaughtonTadman

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H Herbert LomasCastle P Peggy NovakBessie Warbuckle L Lewis CassonLord Sedgmire F Felix AylmerChairman of Council J Jean CadellMiss Dry S Skelton KnaggsReg. Aythorne L Laura SmithsonMrs. Brimsley F Florence GregsonMrs. Molton B Beckett BouldForeman on Road Building Site M Madge BrindleyA Psalm Singer D Davina Whitehouse A Arthur HamblingVillage Doctor R Ralph TrumanNursing Home Doctor G George SpenceMan Listening to Chairman of Council Speech (uncredited)