Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.

• DirectorJohn Baxter
• Release28 June 1941
• GenreDrama
• Duration1h 34m
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  5.7
  12 reviews
• Productions

  British National Films