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This is a guest post for Silent London by Lucie Dutton. Lucie is currently researching a PhD thesis on Maurice Elvey’s early career. This post contains plot spoilers.
Lights! Fairyland! Romance!
This intertitle from Maurice Elvey’s 1927 version of Hindle Wakes might lead an audience to think that the film is just enjoyable froth; a pleasant way of spending a couple of hours but not much more. In truth, Hindle Wakes is far better summarised by another of its intertitles: “Romance is all very well … but marriage would be a failure.”
Hindle Wakes, from the play by Stanley Houghton, is one of the finest works to come out of the British film industry of the late 1920s. It explores the social and moral pressures faced by a young woman who decides to assert her own sexual and feminist identity. During Wakes Week, mill worker Fanny Hawthorne takes a trip to Blackpool and embarks on an affair with Allan Jeffcote, the son of the mill owner. Fanny and Alla
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The Dear Departed
William Stanley Houghton was an English dramatist who was a prominent member of a group of playwrights known as the Manchester School of Dramatics. He was influenced strongly by Ibsen. Houghton’s plays were set locally in Northern England but represented universal aspects of human nature. Houghton left his office job in 1912 to become a full-time dramatist and moved to London. There, he became part of the city’s dramatic and literary culture.
In the play, The Dear Departed, Stanley Houghton satirises the degradation of moral values in the British middle class. It depicts the sad reality of modern nuclear families strained by selfish interests and individual desires. Reflecting the society at large, the tale takes place at the house of the Slaters. In trying to grab the things belonging to their father, the children disregard entirely modesty, decency and obligation towards their family. The play was first produced in Manchester
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The Works of Stanley Houghton Volume 1
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