Overview
At the Trenartha Tin Plate Works a bitter industrial dispute has lasted five months. The founder of the company, the staunch conservative John Anthony, refuses to accede to the demands of the workforce, despite the cessation of output and the resultant decline in share value and despite the human suffering the strike is causing, especially to the families of the workers. Equally uncompromising is the strike leader David Roberts, who even opposes his own union by holding out for the workers' demands.
Director and cast
- Peter Vaughan as John Anthony
- Timothy West as David Roberts
- Anna Calder-Marshall as Annie Roberts
- Kate Buffery as Enid Underwood
- Bernard Archard as Frederic Wilder
- Howard Lew Lewis as William Scantlebury
- Oscar Quitak as Henry Tench
- Myles Hoyle as Francis Underwood
- Shaun Scott as Edgar Anthony
- John Nettleton as Oliver Wanklin
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