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South Riding (1938)

August 1, 1938 (GB) Drama, Romance • 85m

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.

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Top Billed Cast

Edna Best
Edna Best

Sarah Barton

Edmund Gwenn
Edmund Gwenn

Alfred Huggins

Ann Todd
Ann Todd

Madge Carne

Marie Lohr
Marie Lohr

Mrs. Beddows

Milton Rosmer
Milton Rosmer

Alderman Snaith

Joan Ellum
Joan Ellum

Lydia Holly

Glynis Johns
Glynis Johns

Midge Carne

Peggy Novak
Peggy Novak

Bessie Warbuckle

Lewis Casson
Lewis Casson

Lord Sedgmire

Felix Aylmer
Felix Aylmer

Chairman of Council

Skelton Knaggs
Skelton Knaggs

Reg. Aythorne

Laura Smithson
Laura Smithson

Mrs. Brimsley

Beckett Bould
Beckett Bould

Foreman on Road Building Site

Madge Brindley
Madge Brindley

A Psalm Singer

Arthur Hambling
Arthur Hambling

Village Doctor

Ralph Truman
Ralph Truman

Nursing Home Doctor

George Spence
George Spence

Man Listening to Chairman of Council Speech (uncredited)

Crew


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EN

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