The Luddites (1988)
51m
Running Time
June 23, 1988Release Date
Plot.
In 1812 there were violent disturbances in Yorkshire when new machines were introduced into the wool industry. This film is an interpretation of those events made in the style of a documentary.
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Cast & Crew.
Steven Alvey
Henry Smith
Ray Armstrong
Militia Sargent
Dicken Ashworth
William Thorpe
David Becalick
George Meller
Jim Bywater
William Cartwright
Charles Collingwood
David Ricardo
Jeannie Crowther
Mrs Armitage
David Fleeshman
Enoch Taylor
Stephen Frost
William Hinchcliffe
Peter Geeves
Poor Law Officer
John Graham
Edward Baines
Alexander John
Narrator
Norman Mann
Surgeon
Simon Kossoff
Cinematographer
Anthony Milner
William Horsfall
Henry Moxon
Home Secretary
Victoria O'Keefe
Anne Bamforth
Stephen Petcher
Ben Walker
Neil Phillips
John Bamforth
Joanna Phillips-Lane
Mary Bamforth
John Ringham
Joseph Radcliffe
Allan Surtees
John Baines
Raymond Witch
Prison Chaplin
Simon Kosoff
Cinematography
Richard Broad
Director
Taylor Downing
Producer
Julia Lisney
Casting
Details.
This Movie Is About.
textile industry
industrial unrest
period drama
political protest
protestors
regency period
economic inequality
luddites