A cotton mill worker in Lancashire falls for her boss's son while on a Wakes Week holiday in Blackpool but enlists the aid of her girlfriend to keep it a secret to hide it from her interferi... Read allA cotton mill worker in Lancashire falls for her boss's son while on a Wakes Week holiday in Blackpool but enlists the aid of her girlfriend to keep it a secret to hide it from her interfering parents.A cotton mill worker in Lancashire falls for her boss's son while on a Wakes Week holiday in Blackpool but enlists the aid of her girlfriend to keep it a secret to hide it from her interfering parents.
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Chris Hawthorn: What do you think could have happened to her?
Mrs. Hawthorn: Why, it's staring you in the face! She's gone off with a chap, that's what.
Chris Hawthorn: I don't believe it. Our Jenny would never do a thing like that.
Mrs. Hawthorn: Trust you to stick up for her. Well, what else can it mean?
Chris Hawthorn: I don't know. Perhaps she's been kidnapped or something. Maybe I ought to go to the police.
Mrs. Hawthorn: You'll do no such thing. Isn't it enough for you that she's disgraced us, without telling the whole of Hindle?
Chris Hawthorn: We've no proof that she has.
Mrs. Hawthorn: Kidnapped indeed! She put yesterday's date on the card, the sly, artful little... oh, I tell you she's gone off with a chap. And it's you who're to blame Chris Hawthorn, for never having taken a stick to her!
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Sung by Michael Medwin and Brian Worth at approx. 15 minutes.
In this production the drama revolves more round the parents - they were of a generation that still held to Edwardian values even if their offspring didn't. Shorn of its controversial edge but retaining the questions of differences of class or rather money, the part that does remain is a well played modest domestic drama involving the parents.
As another reviewer has pointed out the Lancashire mill girl daughter speaks and dresses like a débutante, indistinguishable from her upper class love "rival" - film companies apparently at the time obliged actresses to lose all trace of regional or working class accents. Small wonder the revolution of kitchen sink realism in play and film occurred within less than 4 years.
The earlier versions including the silent ones are rated higher than this probably because they were closer to the time when the story would have been controversial and highly charged. However now is probably the time for a period revival with its theme of a strong and independently minded working class young woman defying convention and self-interest.
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- Holiday Week
- Filming locations
- Great Orme Tramway, Victoria Station, Church Walks, Llandudno, Conwy, Wales, UK(Jenny and Alan spend a week in Llandudno)
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- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1