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The Luddites

1988

0h 51m

Documentary, Drama, History

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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.

Cast

David Fleeshman

Enoch Taylor

Stephen Frost

William Hinchcliffe

Victoria O'Keefe

Anne Bamforth

Allan Surtees

John Baines

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

Peter Geeves

Poor Law Officer

John Graham

Edward Baines

Alexander John

Narrator

Norman Mann

Surgeon

Anthony Milner

William Horsfall

Henry Moxon

Home Secretary

Stephen Petcher

Ben Walker

Neil Phillips

John Bamforth

Joanna Phillips-Lane

Mary Bamforth

John Ringham

Joseph Radcliffe

Raymond Witch

Prison Chaplin

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