South Riding (movie)
- User score: 6.2
- Production country: United Kingdom
- Producer: Victor Saville
- Production companies: Victor Saville Productions, London Films Productions
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Release date: 8/1/1938
- Run time: 85 min.
Movie description
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.
