South Riding

United Kingdom

• 1938-08-01
• ▪

  Drama,

  Romance
• ▪ 1h-25m

no tagline

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.

• Victor SavilleDirector

  Harry Stradling Sr.Director of Photography

  Winifred HoltbyNovel

  Ian DalrympleScreenplay

  Donald BullScreenplay