South Riding
1938Winifred 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.
Acted in
Edna Best
as Sarah Barton
Ralph Richardson
as Robert Carne
Edmund Gwenn
as Alfred Huggins
Ann Todd
as Madge Carne
Marie Lohr
as Mrs. Beddows
Milton Rosmer
as Alderman Snaith
John Clements
as Joe Astell
Edward Lexy
as Mr. Holly
Joan Ellum
as Lydia Holly
Glynis Johns
as Midge Carne
Josephine Wilson
as Mrs. Holly
Gus McNaughton
as Tadman
Herbert Lomas
as Castle
Peggy Novak
as Bessie Warbuckle
Lewis Casson
as Lord Sedgmire
Felix Aylmer
as Chairman of Council
Jean Cadell
as Miss Dry
Skelton Knaggs
as Reg. Aythorne
Laura Smithson
as Mrs. Brimsley
Florence Gregson
as Mrs. Molton
Beckett Bould
as Foreman on Road Building Site
Madge Brindley
as A Psalm Singer
Davina Whitehouse
Arthur Hambling
as Village Doctor
Ralph Truman
as Nursing Home Doctor