Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Victor Saville Productions London Films Productions
Cast & Crew
H
Harry Stradling Sr.
Director of Photography
V
Victor Saville
Director
I
Ian Dalrymple
Screenplay
W
Winifred Holtby
Novel
South Riding
Audience Score
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda but the frontline 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 mans 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
DirectorVictor Saville
