The Big Flame (1969)

Review: The Big Flame (1969)

Director: Ken Loach

Cast: Norman Rossington, Godfrey Quigley, Peter Kerrigan, Ken Jones, Daniel Stephens,

Norman Rossington
Norman Rossington
Godfrey Quigley
Godfrey Quigley
Peter Kerrigan
Peter Kerrigan
Ken Jones
Ken Jones
Daniel Stephens
Daniel Stephens

Plot: After a prolonged industrial dispute in the Liverpool Docks, the striking workers reject management demands of a return to work and decide instead to occupy the docks and run the operation themselves.

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Recent viewing, part 1

Recent viewing, part 1

Since reading Chris Fujiwara’s book about Jacques Tourneur, The Cinema of Nightfall (Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore and London, 1998), I’ve been searching out films by the director, particularly ones unconnected with the […]

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