Hand in Hand (1961)
1h 13m
Running Time
February 6, 1961Release Date
Hand in Hand (1961)
1h 13m
Running Time
February 6, 1961Release Date
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Plot.
Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends "forever and ever and can't be parted for never and never". Unfortunately, the society that Michael and Rachel live in is one of religious intolerance. The fact that Michael is Irish Catholic and Rachel is Jewish is a point of conflict for just about everyone in the community.
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Cast & Crew.
Loretta Parry
Rachel Mathias
Philip Needs
Michael O'Malley
Kathleen Byron
Mrs. O'Malley
Finlay Currie
Mr. Pritchard
John Gregson
Father Timothy
Arnold Diamond
Mr. Mathias
Sybil Thorndike
Lady Caroline
Philip Leacock
Director
Andrew Mitchell
Writer
Diana Morgan
Writer
Derek Sydney
Rabbi
Leopold Atlas
Writer
Sidney Harmon
Writer
Denis Gilmore
Tom
Helen Winston
Producer
Miriam Karlin
Mrs. Mathias
Barry Keegan
Mr. O'Malley
Stanley Black
Composer
Barbara Hicks
Miss Roberts
Susan Reid
Priscilla
Peter Pike
Harry
Donald Tandy
George
Madge Ryan
George's Wife
Stratford Johns
Farmer
Eric Francis
Newsboy
Martin Lawrence
The Cantor
Dido Plumb
Jewish Man in Synagogue (uncredited)
H.L. Bird
Sound Recordist
Freddie Young
Director of Photography
Robert Lennard
Casting
R. E. Dearing
Production Manager
Peter Tanner
Editor
Len Shilton
Sound Recordist
Frederick Gotfurt
Scenario Writer
Ivan King
Art Direction
June Randall
Continuity
Mike Roberts
Clapper Loader
Tony White
Camera Operator
Polly Young
Hairdresser
Bob Clark
Makeup Artist
Terry Poulton
Sound Editor
Douglas Hermes
Assistant Director
A. W. Lumkin
Recording Supervision
Jackie Jackson
Wardrobe Master
Brendan Fox
Technical Advisor
A. Katz
Technical Advisor
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Hand in Hand is a 1961 British drama film about the friendship between two young children, one a Roman Catholic boy about nine, the other a 7-year-old Jewish girl.
Filmed in the summer of 1960 under the title "The Star and the Cross", Hand in Hand. Although ABPC's distribution arm in the United Kingdom, Warner-Pathe Film Distributors, screened the film for the British press in late 1960, it remained unreleased in the UK until 1963, when it finally went out nationally on the ABC cinema circuit as the supporting feature for the Tony Hancock comedy The Punch and Judy Man. It was shown to American children and adults when released on the CBS Children's Film Festival 1967 season hosted by Kukla, Fran and Ollie.