Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.

Movie rating: 6.9 / 10 (324)

Directed by: John Baxter

Writer credits: Walter Greenwood - Ronald Gow

Cast: Deborah Kerr - Clifford Evans - George Carney - Mary Merrall - Geoffrey Hibbert

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