Synopsis
The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes67%
40 audience votes
Key crew
- Gavin LambertScreenplay
- Jack CardiffDirector
- T. E. B. ClarkeScreenplay
- Mario NascimbeneOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Mary UreClara Dawes
- Trevor HowardWalter Morel
- Dean StockwellPaul Morel
- Wendy HillerGertrude Morel
- Heather SearsMiriam Leivers
- William LucasWilliam Morel
- Conrad PhillipsBaxter Dawes
- Ernest ThesigerMr. Hadlock
- Donald PleasenceMr. Pappleworth
- Rosalie CrutchleyMrs. Leivers
- Sean BarrettArthur Morel
- Elizabeth BegleyMrs. Radford
Stills
Themes
based on novel or bookheart attackfamily relationshipsnottinghamblack and whitemining towndeath of mothercoal minedrunkenness1900s