Flame In the Streets (1961)

Review: Flame In the Streets (1961)

Director: Roy Ward Baker

Cast: John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Brenda De Banzie, Earl Cameron, Johnny Sekka,

John Mills
John Mills
Sylvia Syms
Sylvia Syms
Brenda De Banzie
Brenda De Banzie
Earl Cameron
Earl Cameron
Johnny Sekka
Johnny Sekka

Plot: Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in the burgeoning West Indian community of early 1960s Britain. Trades union leader (Mills) fights for the rights of a black worker but struggles with the news that his own daughter is planning to marry a West Indian, much against his own logic and the prejudice of his wife.

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The completist impulse is a key element of the collector’s mentality. For instance, I have forty-nine of Hitchcock’s features on DVD, plus his two Second World War propaganda shorts and season one of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. […]

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