Fanny hawthorne, a spirited, determined mill girl, has just returned from a weekend in blackpool with her friend mary hollins. Hindle wakes a play in three acts by stanley houghton. Hindle wakes by stanley houghton overdrive rakuten. Stanley houghtons hindle wakes, an obscure british play from 1912 thats been dusted off and revivified by the mint theater company, begins with a storm. During wakes week, the hindle mill workers go on holiday to blackpool. In 1896, the family moved to 2 athol road, alexandra park. Hindle wakes was obviously a big influence on king vidors the crowd which came out a year later.
It is among the best modern scores that i have ever heard accompanying a silent film and easily the. A young millgirl spends a weekend with the bosss son and defies convention by not wishing to marry him. Fanny is a millhand in the factory owned by alans father and their. Stanley houghtons hindle wakes, currently playing at the mint theatre through february 17, is a neglected, once widely popular, ibsenian play of ideas, so controversial in its day oxford university tried to prevent its students from seeing it. Fanny hawthorn brody works in a cotton mill in hindle, lancashire and lives with her mother and father ault and wright. Fanny hawthorn is relaxing at the seashore with a girlfriend when she runs into alan jeffcote, the mill owners son. Houghtons best known play, hindle wakes has been filmed five times, most recently in 1976 as a tv film starring donald pleasance. The two go off together leaving mary to give them an alibi. Hindle refers to a town in lancashire, and wakes or weeks, to a tenday bank holiday peculiar to the region. Find movie and film cast and crew information for hindle wakes 1976 laurence olivier on allmovie. With sybil thorndike, john stuart, norman mckinnel, edmund gwenn. The play is set in the fictional mill town of hindle in lancashire in england, and concerns two young persons, fanny hawthorn and alan jeffcote, who are discovered to have been having what would now be called a dirty weekend during their holiday, during the towns wakes week. Jenny is attracted to the mill s boss s son brian worth. In addition to distinguished english actors, the casts assembled for these.
This collection of the terrific 1970s british television program brings together five excellent filmed versions of classic plays, each featuring the incomparable sir laurence olivier. The film also avoids devolving too much into hysterics. The wakes was the weeks holiday organised by each mill town, during which all the local mills shut and the millworkers took their holiday. Peter brown places this as preston, now platform 6 but platform 8 when it was filmed following considerable changes. The film was the fourth and last screen adaptation of the famous stanley houghton play of the 1910s, dealing with an independentminded young woman insisting on her right to enjoy a sexual flirtation regardless of the disapproval of family or society. Interestingly, thee, thou, and thy also pop up meaning that in 1910 these terms were not confined to quakers. Tickets for hindle wakes at the bolton octagon theatre following the success of hobsons choice, the octagon presents another famous, great northern play. The round arch over an entrance to the now demolished butler street ticket office can be seen top left.
The plays title refers to the wakes week holiday in the fictional town of hindle and is also a pun on the name of a traditional lancashire chicken dish. Its holiday week in the lancashire town of hindle, just before the first world war. The plays, with the exception of hindle wakes, all starred laurence olivier. Wakes weeks holidays became a tradition in northern towns following the industrial revolution, so the cotton mills and manufacturing factories could be closed for maintenance. Alan takes fanny to an hotel in wales for a few days of fun, but the fun stops when their parents find out. There she carries on a flirtation with allan jeffcote stuart, the wealthy son of the. Study and subversion of social morality and mores circa early 1900s, concerning two young people who enjoy a onenight stand, only to be forced by their respective families to. High praise should also be given to in the nursery, the british group who scored the film. A forbidden affair between two young people is soon discovered, resulting in the expected harsh reactions, recriminations and demands for a quick marriage.
A working girl and a millionaires playboy son sow their wild oats during lancashires wakes week and cause consternation to both their families. Hindle wakes alan jeffcote 1976 children man in shower 1976 actor. The hindle to blackpool special leaves for the coast. Looking at the titles pun hindle is the small milltown in the play. Theyve released some big name films like phantom of the opera, it, and the works of windsor mckay and mary pickford, but they also release some excellent lesser known silent gems.
A forgotten playwright, freshly minted stanley houghtons final play, a study of provincial hypocrisy in vicwardian england, is being staged in the u. Telecharger hindle wakes film complet en francais vf hd 1976. One film that fits into that category is their newest release, maurice elveys hindle wakes. Hindle wakes is all about the sexual politics of its era. Mill girl jenny hawthorne meets alan jeffcote, the millowners son, and they go to llandudno to spend a secret weekend together. During the annual vacation week known as wakes week, she and her best friend mary carlisle travel by train to blackpool to enjoy the sea air, amusement park and dancehalls. With rosalind ayres, judi bowker, roy dotrice, trevor eve. In the nurserys score captures the spirit, passion and poignancy of the film with a modern accompaniment designed to. In the best play of 1912, the conventional morals and manners of a. The 1927 hindle wakes is a superior silent english drama with excellent production values and a remarkably liberated theme. Commissioned by leeds international film festival with support from yorkshire arts and bfi films. Some of the plays were based on productions staged at the national theatre during the period when olivier was artistic director. A lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owners son while on holiday. In the play, fanny hawthorn returns home from a weekend in blackpool britains then most popular holiday resort, having, she claims, spent the time with.
When this is discovered, their families decide they must marry, for conventions sake. The people at milestone are continuing their tradition of releasing high quality silent movies. Soundtrack for the 1927 film hindle wakes, directed by maurice elvey. Its wakes week in hindle and fanny hawthorn has gone to blackpool with her friend mary. Watch hindle wakes tv movie 1976 online streaming free.
Renown films renown films hindle wakes 194776 arthur crabtree directed this 1952 monachgell production. Its the end of the wakes weekend in the fictitious mill town of hindle in lancashire, just before the outbreak of the first world war. Romantic drama about a mill girl who becomes romantically involved with the bosss son while on holiday in blackpool. Hindle wakes is a 1952 british drama film, directed by arthur crabtree and starring lisa daniely and leslie dwyer. Laurence olivier presents is a british television series made by granada television which ran from 1976 to 1978. 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. Hindle wakes 1976 is a drama movie starring rosalind ayres and judi bowker. The plays title refers to the wakes week holiday in the fictional town of hindle and is also a pun on the name of a.
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