South Riding (1938)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Edna Best	...	Sarah Barton
	Ralph Richardson	...	Robert Carne
	Edmund Gwenn	...	Alfred Huggins
	Ann Todd	...	Madge Carne
	Marie Lohr	...	Mrs. Beddows
	Milton Rosmer	...	Alderman Snaith
	John Clements	...	Joe Astell
	Edward Lexy	...	Mr. Holly
	Joan Ellum	...	Lydia Holly
	Glynis Johns	...	Midge Carne
	Josephine Wilson	...	Mrs. Holly
	Gus McNaughton	...	Tadman
	Herbert Lomas	...	Castle
	Peggy Novak	...	Bessie Warbuckle
	Lewis Casson	...	Lord Sedgmire

Storyline

"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. Written by Michael Crew <m.crew@bbcnc.org.uk>  

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