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starring: Edna Best, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Gwenn, Ann Todd, Marie Lohrdirected by: Victor Saville
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304337530
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6304337531
Label: Kino Video
Manufacturer: Kino Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Kino Video
Release Date: June 27, 2000
Running Time: 85 minutes
Sales Rank: 39523
Studio: Kino Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 01, 1938
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Customer Reviews
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Rating: - wonderful...but not the film described
I purchased a venerable old VHS copy of this film based on my love of British cinema and the reader's comments above.
Surprise, surprise. "South Riding" is indeed wonderful, but the plot has nothing to do with what the other reviewer described. There is no dog, no beleaguered dog owner, no cruel magistrate and no crusading newspaperman. Ralph Richardson plays a down-on-his-luck member of the gentry who has fallen on hard times due to the prolonged confinement of his mentally disturbed ... Read More
Rating: - A wonderful British film from 1938
Ralph Richardson shines in this archetypal interwar British drama, which focusses on life in rural South Riding, a hamlet where struggling newsman Richardson winds up, and where he winds up making trouble for the local gentry. The plot revolves around the local political boss's obstinate feud with a poor local woman whose dog, Richardson discovers, has been impounded because she refuses to buy a license, and who is scheduled to be put down as a result. When the woman comes to plead her case with the ... Read More
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