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Hindle Wakes

  • 19271927
  • 2h
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
278
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POPULARITY
168,741
138,985
Hindle Wakes (1927)
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A celebration of working class leisure activities at Hindle, Lancashire, during "Wakes Week", an annual week still observed in parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire when all factories and school... Read allA celebration of working class leisure activities at Hindle, Lancashire, during "Wakes Week", an annual week still observed in parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire when all factories and schools take a holiday.A celebration of working class leisure activities at Hindle, Lancashire, during "Wakes Week", an annual week still observed in parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire when all factories and schools take a holiday.
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
278
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
168,741
138,985
  • Director
    • Maurice Elvey
  • Writers
    • Stanley Houghton(play "Hindle Wakes")
    • Victor Saville
  • Stars
    • Estelle Brody
    • John Stuart
    • Norman McKinnel
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  • Director
    • Maurice Elvey
  • Writers
    • Stanley Houghton(play "Hindle Wakes")
    • Victor Saville
  • Stars
    • Estelle Brody
    • John Stuart
    • Norman McKinnel
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    • 11User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
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    Estelle Brody, Peggy Carlisle, John Stuart, and Humberston Wright in Hindle Wakes (1927)
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    Estelle Brody
    • Fanny Hawthorn
    John Stuart
    John Stuart
    • Allan Jeffcote
    Norman McKinnel
    Norman McKinnel
    • Nathaniel Jeffcote
    Marie Ault
    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
    Cyril McLaglen
    • Alf
    • (as Cyril Maclaglen)
    Graham Soutten
    • Edward Hollins
    • (as B. Graham Soutten)
    • Director
      • Maurice Elvey
    • Writers
      • Stanley Houghton(play "Hindle Wakes")
      • Victor Saville
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      Estelle Brody's debut.
    • Connections
      Featured in Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995)

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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.
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    • Release date
      • September 12, 1927 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Languages
      • None
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Fanny Hawthorne
    • Production company
      • Gaumont British Picture Corporation
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    • Runtime
      2 hours
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Silent
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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