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7 November 1929 (USA) morePlot:
A celebration of working class leisure activities at Hindle, Lancashire, during "Wakes Week", an annual... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Hindle wakes up still moreCast
(Credited cast) | Estelle Brody | ... | Fanny Hawthorn |
| John Stuart | ... | Allan Jeffcote |
| Norman McKinnel | ... | Nathaniel Jeffcote |
| Marie Ault | ... | Mrs. Hawthorn |
| Humberston Wright | ... | Chris Hawthorne (as Humberstone Wright) |
| Gladys Jennings | ... | Beatrice Farrar |
| Irene Rooke | ... | Mrs. Jeffcote |
| Peggy Carlisle | ... | Mary Hollins |
| Arthur Chesney | ... | Sir Timothy Farrar |
| John Rowal | ... | George Ramsbottom |
| Alf Goddard | ... | Nobby |
| Cyril McLaglen | ... | Alf (as Cyril Maclaglen) |
| Graham Soutten | ... | Edward Hollins (as B. Graham Soutten) |
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HINDLE WAKES (1927) Maurice Elvey's version of the controversial story set during a workers holiday week in Lancashire. Several other versions followed but this is apparently the most notable. Often cited as the start of the British cinema's characteristic strain of social realism which pervades so many later films - Powell & Pressburger providing the main creative island of respite - this one has some convincing opening shots documenting the workers in their mills and then off to Blackpool for their holidays. WAKES' story is mostly the familiar, melodramatic one of poor girl 'led astray' by rich man and suffers from a long middle section containing all the expected moralistic, and now dated, chest beating about the perils of natural fun outside marriage. What entirely redeems the film from this fossil nose dive is the character of the heroine, Fanny (Estelle Brody, later to appear in TV's THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES, of all things) who ultimately is entirely unrepentent towards her days of sexual indiscretion in Llandudno, and even dismisses the affair as just a "little fancy" before leaving home to seek freedom elsewhere. Slightly shocking, when seen in context of the times, even today.