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South Riding (1938)

South Riding (1938)

Drama Romance
Release Date: 1938, August 1
Directors: Victor Saville
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Victor Saville Productions, London Films Productions
Cast: Ralph Truman, Ralph Richardson, Glynis Johns, George Spence, Edmund Gwenn, John Clements, Felix Aylmer, Arthur Hambling, Gus McNaughton, Ann Todd, Marie Lohr, Madge Brindley

Overview:

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.