Hindle Wakes (1931)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Victor Saville

Writers:

Stanley Houghton (play)
Angus MacPhail (writer)

Genre:

Drama

Plot Keywords:

Based On Play

Cast

Sybil Thorndike	...	Mrs. Hawthorne
John Stuart	...	Alan Jeffcote
Norman McKinnel	...	Nat Jeffcote
Edmund Gwenn	...	Chris Hawthorne
Belle Chrystall	...	Jenny Hawthorne
Mary Clare	...	Mrs. Jeffcote
Muriel Angelus	...	Beatrice Farrar
A.G. Poulton	...	Sir Timothy Farrar
Ruth Peterson	...	Mary Hollins
Lionel Roberts	...	Bob Parker
Bob Johnson	...	Song Plugger

Runtime:

79 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.20 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Warner Brothers First National Studios, Teddington Studios, Teddington, Middlesex, England, UK

Company:

Gainsborough Pictures

Movie Connections:

Version of Hindle Wakes (1976) (TV)

picture of a vanished age

At the time this film was made it was the custom for whole towns to shut down their factories for one week in the summer so that the staff could go on holiday,unpaid,to Blackpool or Scarborough and other popular seaside towns.This film centres around the activities of a young couple and its effect on their respective families.Despitebeing directed by Victor Saville there is very little that is cinematic about this film.It feels like it is merely a filmed stage play.It is interesting to see a middle aged Sybil Thorndike with a leading role.Her film career was very sporadic.Edmund Gwenn is his usual bluff Northern type.The main interest is in a historic sense.Seeing a period and attitudes which seem centuries ago not a mere 74 years