This Is My Street
| This Is My Street | |
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.jpg) British quad poster by Tom Chantrell | |
| Directed by | Sidney Hayers |
| Screenplay by | Bill MacIlwraith |
| Produced by | Jack Hanbury Peter Rogers |
| Starring | Ian Hendry June Ritchie |
| Cinematography | Alan Hume |
| Edited by | Roger Cherrill |
| Music by | Eric Rogers |
Production company | Peter Rogers Productions (as Adder Productions) |
| Distributed by | Warner-Pathé Distributors (UK) |
Release date | 15 January 1964 (London)(UK) |
Running time | 94 min |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
This Is My Street is a 1964 British drama film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Ian Hendry,[1] June Ritchie, Avice Landone, John Hurt and Meredith Edwards.[2] The screenplay is by Bill MacIlwraith from a novel by Nan Maynard. It concerns a bored housewife living in a run down inner city London house who begins an affair with the lodger, a salesman.[3]
Plot
Battersea housewife Margery (June Ritchie) lives a life of drudgery in a working class terrace with her feckless husband (Mike Pratt) and her small daughter. Lodging next door with her mother is Harry (Ian Hendry), a flashy salesman and nightclub owner who repeatedly attempts to seduce Marge. At first showing little interest, Marge finally gives in after he helps find her missing daughter. Harry eventually tires of Marge, and turns his attentions to her younger, educated sister, Jinny (Annette Andre). Marge though, is infatuated, and when she discovers Harry plans to marry her sister, she attempts to kill herself – leaving a suicide note exposing her affair with Harry.
Cast
- Ian Hendry as Harry King
- June Ritchie as Margery Graham
- Avice Landone as Lily
- Meredith Edwards as Steve
- Madge Ryan as Kitty
- John Hurt as Charlie
- Annette Andre as Jinny
- Philippa Gail as Maureen
- Mike Pratt as Sid Graham
- Tom Adams as Paul
- Hilda Fenemore as Doris
- Susan Burnet as Phyllis
- Robert Bruce as Mark
- John Bluthal as Joe
- Carl Bernard as Fred
- Margaret Boyd as Granny
- Patrick Cargill as Ransome
- Margo Johns as Isabel
- Derek Francis as Fingus
- Ursula Hirst as Molly
- Sheraton Blount as Cindy
Critical reception
The Radio Times called it "a well-written, nicely shot squalor fest";[4] Allmovie called it an "unsavory British programmer";[5] Britmovie noted a "Sixties’ backstreets bedroom drama adapted from Nan Maynard’s rather middling novel. Director Sidney Hayers fashions an interesting drama amid the sordid squalor of London and creates a number of genuinely sympathetic characters. Ian Hendry giving a performance of compelling magnetic brillianceas the jack-the-lad charmer capable of turning from seducer to scoundrel and back again in the blink of an eye";[6] and TV Guide wrote, "The even direction smooths over the ugly plot of a mean little womanizer...Hendry and Ritchie exude interesting chemistry together, and the movie spins right along while they are on the screen."[7]
References
- ^ "Official Website of Ian Hendry". Retrieved 6 July 2013.
- ^ "This Is My Street". 3 September 1964 – via IMDb.
- ^ "This Is My Street (1963)".
- ^ "This Is My Street - Film from RadioTimes".
- ^ "This Is My Street (1964) - Sidney Hayers - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie".
- ^ "This Is My Street - Britmovie - Home of British Films".
- ^ "This Is My Street".
External links
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