Bankdam's weavers

Movie
German title	Bankdam's weavers
Original title	Master of Bankdam
Country of production	Great Britain
original language	English
Publishing year	1947
length	111 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Walter Forde
script	Edward Dryhurst Moie Charles
production	Walter Forde Edward Dryhurst Culley Forde Nat A. Bronstein
music	Arthur Benjamin
camera	Basil Emmott
cut	Terence Fisher
occupation
Anne Crawford : Anne Pickersgill Dennis Price : Joshua Crowther Tom Walls : Simeon Crowther Sr. Stephen Murray : Zebediah Crowther Linden Travers : Clara Baker Jimmy Hanley : Simeon Crowther Jr. Nancy Price : Lydia Crowther David Tomlinson : Lancelot Handel Crowther Patrick Holt : Lemuel Pickersgill Herbert Lomas : Tom France Frederick Piper : Ben Pickersgill Beatrice Varley : Mrs. Pickersgill Raymond Rollett : Handel Baker April Stride : Sophie Teresa Crowther Avis Scott : Mary Crowther Nicholas Parsons : Edgar Hoylehouse Shelagh Fraser : Alice France

The Weavers of Bankdam (Original title: Master of Bankdam ) is a British drama film directed by Walter Forde from 1947 with Anne Crawford , Dennis Price and Tom Walls in the lead roles. The film was produced by Holbein Films for the Rank Organization based on the novel The Crowthers of Bankdam by Thomas Armstrong.

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The small town of Ramsfield in Yorkshire around 1860: In just three generations, the Crowther family grew the smallest local weaving mill into one of the city's most prosperous businesses. But Manchester-style capitalism ultimately shows its ugly grimace. Greed and megalomania drive the family business to the brink of ruin. Everyone's existence is at stake.

The brothers Zebediah and Joshua Crowther, two completely opposite characters, are now fighting with their father for the supremacy of the ultra-conservative company in the Victorian era after the decline of the once prosperous company . Each of the two so different brothers struggles for absolute power, tries to take control of the family and the legacy of the Bankdam weaving mill. The war is dogged and waged by all means. When Joshua finally dies in an accident in the factory, Zebediah, who is terminally ill himself, does not entrust the inheritance of Bankdam to his own son, but to Joshua's son Simeon, who he firmly believes, as the new lord of Bankdam, has restored the family business to its former glory will lead.

Reviews

“Two unequal sons of a Yorkshire weaving mill are fighting for a family and inheritance in the mid-19th century. Good British entertainment cinema with convincing character drawing. "

- Lexicon of international film

Production notes

Muir Mathieson was the musical director . The sound engineer was Tommy Meyers. The buildings are by George Paterson. Gerry Fletcher was responsible as a makeup artist. Jack Whitehead took care of the special effects. Doris Lee provided the costumes. Production manager was Michael F. Johnson. The film was set at Nettlefold Studios, Walton-on-Thames , Surrey , England .

Web links

• The weavers of Bankdam in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Bankdam weavers in Back then in the cinema

Individual evidence

1. Jump up ↑ Die Weber von Bankdam in: Music And Psychology: From Vienna to London, 1939-52 (Hans Keller Archive) , by Hans Keller, Christopher Wintle, Alison M. Garnham, Plumbago Books and Arts, 2003, p. 158
2. ↑ The Weavers of Bankdam. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .