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Hindle Wakes is a British film of genre Drama directed by Victor Saville with Belle Chrystall

Hindle Wakes (1931)

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Length 1h19
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Genres Drama
Rating65% 3.2717253.2717253.2717253.2717253.271725

Hindle Wakes is a 1931 British film drama, directed by Victor Saville for Gainsborough Pictures and starring Belle Chrystall and John Stuart. The film is adapted from Stanley Houghton's 1912 stage play of the same name, which had previously been filmed twice as a silent in 1918 and 1927. Saville had been the producer on the highly regarded 1927 version directed by Maurice Elvey. Both Stuart and Norman McKinnel returned in 1931 to reprise their roles from the 1927 film.

Saville kept the plot faithful to its source material, making the film essentially a sound retread of the earlier silent versions, with only a small number of minor cosmetic adjustments (for example the name of the lead character is changed from Fanny to Jenny, and the fatal accident here results from a bus crash rather than a drowning).

Synopsis

Lancashire mill-girls Jenny Hawthorne (Chrystall) and Mary Hollins (Ruth Peterson) go on holiday to Blackpool during the annual wakes week in their hometown of Hindle. They run into Alan Jeffcote (Stuart), the son of the owner of the mill in which they work, who has also traveled to Blackpool with a group of friends while his fiancée is detained on business in London. Jenny and Alan hit it off immediately, and he persuades her to leave Blackpool to spend the week with him at Llandudno in North Wales. To cover her tracks, Jenny leaves a postcard with Mary, asking her to send it to her parents (Edmund Gwenn and Sybil Thorndike) later in the week. She and Alan leave their friends and set off for Wales.

Actors

Belle Chrystall

(Jenny Hawthorne)John Stuart

(Alan Jeffcote)Norman McKinnel

(Nat Jeffcote)Mary Clare

(Mrs. Jeffcote)Sybil Thorndike

(Mrs. Hawthorne)
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Edmund Gwenn
Muriel Angelus
Peggy Cartwright
John Longden
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