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Hindle Wakes is all about the sexual politics of it's era. Admittedly it takes a long road to get there, but once it does it is a very insightful look at the hypocrisy of those sexual politics towards women. The film also avoids devolving too much into hysterics. Some characters do, but most keep a level head especially Fanny. She could have ...
17. Sept. 2012 · Hindle Wakes – review. Stanley Houghton was part of the Manchester school of playwrights that did so much to enliven British drama in the years before the first world war. And this excellent ...
Written by CinemaSerf on March 27, 2022. During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help from her friend Mary to pretend her whereabouts but disaster strikes during a boating accident. It is soon discovered Jenny was not with Mary.
During 'Wakes Week', the Hindle mill workers go on holiday to Blackpool. Mill girl Jenny Hawthorne meets Alan Jeffcote, the mill-owner's son, and they go to Llandudno to spend a secret week-end together. When this is discovered, their families decide they must marry, for convention's sake. Stanley Houghton 's popular play of Lancashire life had ...
Fanny Hawthorne: Directed by Maurice Elvey. With Estelle Brody, John Stuart, Norman McKinnel, Marie Ault. A celebration of working-class leisure activities at Hindle, Lancashire during "Wakes Week", an annual week still observed in parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire when all factories and schools take a holiday.
And the film bringing me on this long quest, Maurice Elvey’s 1927 version of Hindle Wakes, being shown as part of the first Yorkshire Silent Film Festival. Based upon Stanley Houghton’s celebrated and (in its day) controversial play, first performed in 1912, this was not the first time Elvey had directed a film version of Hindle Wakes .
11. Juli 2005 · Hindle Wakes. Rating: 3 of 5. While it may not be as visually ravishing as F.W. Murnau's masterpiece Sunrise from the same year, this fully-restored 1927 silent production of Hindle Wakes (adapted from a 1912 play by Stanley Houghton) is a dazzling, innovative work that's nearly as prestigious and still engrossing nearly 80 years after its ...
