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Flame in the Streets (1961)
director of photography:
Christopher Challis
cast:
John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Brenda De Banzie, Earl Cameron, Johnny Sekka, Meredith Edwards, Ann Lynn, Wilfrid Brambell
director:
Roy Ward Baker
running time:
93 min.
writer:
Ted Willis
synopsis
Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in the burgeoning West Indian community of early 1960s Britain. Trades union leader (Mills) fights for the rights of a black worker but struggles with the news that his own daughter is planning to marry a West Indian, much against his own logic and the prejudice of his wife.
Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in the burgeoning West Indian community of early 1960s Britain. Trades union leader (Mills) fights for the rights of a black worker but struggles with the news that his own daughter is planning to marry a West Indian, much against his own logic and the prejudice of his wife.
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