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The Angry Silence (Original title)
Date: 1959 (Copyright)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Guy Green

Synopsis: Drama unfolding in industrial milieu; concerns young, married factory worker who rebels against unofficial strikes and pays a heavy price.

Genre:
Drama

Subjects:
Trade unions, Factories, Industrial disputes
Releases
Date: 1960Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 95 mins Length: 8580 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 2015Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 95 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer

Credits (44)
©: Beaver Films, Presents: Beaver Films, A British Lion Release: British Lion Films, Produced by: Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes, Associate Producer: Jack Rix, [Location Manager]: A.S. Brettell, Production Secretary: Inez Easton, Assistant Director: Basil Rabin, Assistant Director: Julian Mackintosh, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: Henry Emery, Continuity: Beryl Booth, Casting: Maureen Goldner, Written by: Bryan Forbes, From an Original Treatment by: Richard Gregson, Michael Craig, Photographed by: Arthur Ibbetson, Camera Operator: Gerry Massey-Collier, [Focus Puller]: Kevin Kavanagh, [Clapper Loader]: Michael Tomlin, [2nd Camera Operator]: Bob Huke, [Stills]: Laurie Ridley, Editor: Anthony Harvey, [Assistant Editor]: John Poyner, [Assistant Editor (2nd)]: Geoff R. Brown, Art Director: Ray Sim, Set Dresser: Kenneth Bridgeman, [Draughtsman]: James Sawyer, [Scenic Artist]: Feliks Sergejak, [Production Buyer]: Percy Godbold, Wardrobe: Laura Nightingale, [Wardrobe Master]: Ronald Beck, Make Up: Harry Frampton, Hairdressing: Barbara Ritchie, Music Composed and Conducted by: Malcolm Arnold, Sound Recordist: Buster Ambler, Sound Mixer: Red Law, Sound System: Westrex Recording System, [Boom Operator]: Peter Dukelow, Dubbing Editor: Alastair McIntyre, [Publicity]: Jean Garioch, Thanked in credits: Reavell & Co. Ltd., [Made] at: Shepperton Studios
Cast (49)
Richard Attenborough (Tom Curtis), Pier Angeli (Anna Curtis), Michael Craig (Joe Wallace), Bernard Lee (Bert Connolly), Geoffrey Keen (Davis), Laurence Naismith (Martindale), Russell Napier (Thompson), Alfred Burke (Phil Travers), Brian Bedford (Eddie Barnett), Brian Murray (`Gladys'), Penelope Horner (Pat), Norman Bird (Roberts), Stephen Lindo (Brian Curtis), Beckett Bould (Bill Arkwright), George Murcell (Jones), Marilyn Green (Cathy Curtis), Frederick Peisley (Lewis), Ronald Hines (Ball), Oliver Reed (Mick), David Jarrett (Chuck), Gerald Sim (Masters), Michael Lees (Harris), Michael Wynne (Green), Daniel Farson, Alan Whicker (himself), Noel Hood (Miss Bennett), Irene Barrie (1st teenage girl), Karal Gardner (2nd teenage girl), Tony Doonan (Matthews), Piers Keelan (Keyes), Alfred Maron (1st lorry driver), Joe Gibbons (2nd lorry driver), Edna Petrie (Harpy), Bernard Horsfall (Pryce-Evans), Lloyd Pearson (Howarth), Norman Shelley (Seagrave), Roger Maxwell (Collins), Eve Eden (Betty), Marianne Stone (Mavis), Lisa Page (Julia), Dolores Mantez (nurse), John Charlesworth (intern), Redmond Phillips (ambulance driver), Michael Raghan (porter), Jessica Spencer (sister), Deering Wells (police inspector), Graham Rowe (reporter), Rowland Bartrop (TV producer), Bryan Forbes ([reporter from `Dispatch'])