An epic film drama on the lives of three generations of Yorkshire mill-owners during Britain's turbulent Industrial Revolution. Simeon Crowther (Tom Walls) decides to hand over the family textile mill of Bankdam to his two sons, Joshua (Dennis Price) and Zebediah (Stephen Murray). But Zebediah's reckless attitude endangers the .. Read more
| Starring | Anne Crawford, Dennis Price, Tom Walls, Stephen Murray |
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| Director | Walter Forde |
| Genres | Drama |
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An epic film drama on the lives of three generations of Yorkshire mill-owners during Britain's turbulent Industrial Revolution. Simeon Crowther (Tom Walls) decides to hand over the family textile mill of Bankdam to his two sons, Joshua (Dennis Price) and Zebediah (Stephen Murray). But Zebediah's reckless attitude endangers the whole survival of the family business and as catastrophe strikes the mill and they clash with the emerging trade union movement; who will save the mill and earn the title of The Master of Bankdam?
| Starring | Anne Crawford, Dennis Price, Tom Walls, Stephen Murray, Stephen Murray, Linden Travers, Jimmy Hanley, Nancy Price, David Tomlinson, Patrick Holt |
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| Director | Walter Forde |
| Studio | ODEON ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 30 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1947 To Rent: DVD: 20 Aug 2007 |
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A Masterly Story
Thomas Armstrong is a great Yorkshire writer and vividly portrays life in Yorkshire. This film is an excellent study in Yorkshire mill history- showing the ... read more »
[Highly rated reviewer]
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Trouble at't mill
Worth it to watch the cast struggling to overcome their RP and talk in a Yorkshire accent. Dennis Price does so with all the grace of Parkinson wrestling with ... read more »
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Ee Bah Goom
Thiis is a solid, entertaining saga about a family of mill owners somewhere north of Watford during the last part of the nineteenth century and the first part ... read more »
[Highly rated reviewer]
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An old fashioned yarn
As I had to watch this film in two episodes because the first disc was so damaged it lost its momentum a bit. Stephen Murray puts in a good performance but ... read more »
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