South Riding
|South Riding
Status: Released
Runtime: 85
Release Date: 01/08/1938
Origin Language: en
Origin Country: US - GB
Languages: English
Production: Victor Saville ProductionsLondon Films Productions
Countries: United Kingdom
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0 (0)
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.
