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    Angry Silence, The (1960)

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    angrysilenceWhen he refuses to join an unofficial strike, factory worker Tom Curtis (Richard Attenborough) is ostracised by his workmates and finds enormous strain placed on his wife and young son.

    Attenborough gives a sterling performance as Curtis, but the acting honours go to Pier Angeli as his distraught wife and Alfred Burke as the devious agent provocateur behind the strike.

    Although this fascinating melodrama was made over 50 years ago, its attitudes to trade unionism and industrial action are curiously contemporary.

    angrysilence1Bryan Forbes intelligently explores a range of political issues in his Oscar-nominated screenplay, but the practised rhetoric sounds false in the mouths of the rank and file, and, consequently, the best moments are not the confrontations between strike-breaker Richard Attenborough and his workmates, but those depicting the pressures on his marriage.

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    Anna Curtis
    Pier Angeli
    Joe Wallace
    Michael Craig
    Bert Connolly
    Bernard Lee
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    Alfred Burke
    Davis
    Geoffrey Keen
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    Laurence Naismith
    Sid Thompson
    Russell Napier
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    Penelope Horner
    Green
    Michael Wynne
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    Norman Bird
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    Gerald Sim
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