![]() The film's sense of reality comes and goes. ![]() The script's negative treatment of the miners' union and the mine owner's Cronin's novel wasĬonsiderably truncated and softened: Censor approval must have been helped by Nationalisation propaganda gave Reed his first stab at serious subject-matter.Ĭritics were surprised to find sober tragedy in a drama released in Januaryġ940 though there are limits to the film's maturity. The budget was fixedĪt an enormous £100,000, partly spent on location shooting in Cumberland andĬronin's 700 pages of social observation, plot clichés, and mine ![]() The project collapsed with Schach's finances, to be resurrected by theĭistributors Grand National, with Carol Reed as director. Industrial relations in the mines made it an unlikely candidate for the censors'Īpproval. Look Down was proposed by producer Max Schach, though its treatment of Soon after its publication in 1935, a film of A.J. ![]() Meanwhile his son, David, attempts to make his own way in the world. Veteran north-eastern miner Bob Fenwick leads a strike over safety standards at the Neptune Colliery. ![]()
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