South Riding

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South Riding

Release Date: August 01, 1938

Year	:	1938
Slogan	:	«»
Genres	:	Drama, Romance
Production Companies	:	Victor Saville Productions, London Films Productions
Director	:	Victor Saville
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Writers	:	Ian Dalrymple, Donald Bull, Winifred Holtby
RunTime	:	85 mins.

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.