Hindle Wakes (1931 film)

Hindle Wakes
Directed by	Victor Saville
Written by	Victor Saville Angus MacPhail Stanley Houghton
Produced by	Michael Balcon
Starring	Belle Chrystall John Stuart Norman McKinnel
Cinematography	Mutz Greenbaum
Edited by	R. E. Dearing
Music by	William Trytel
Production company	Gainsborough Pictures
Distributed by	Gaumont British Distributors
Release date	4 October 1931 (1931-10-04)
Running time	79 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Hindle Wakes is a 1931 British drama film directed by Victor Saville for Gainsborough Pictures and starring Belle Chrystall and John Stuart. The film is adapted from Stanley Houghton's 1912 stage play of the same name, which had previously been filmed twice as a silent in 1918 and 1927. Saville had been the producer on the highly regarded 1927 version directed by Maurice Elvey. Both Stuart and Norman McKinnel returned in 1931 to reprise their roles from the 1927 film.^[1]

It was shot at the Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd's Bush with sets designed by the art director Andrew Mazzei. Location shooting took place in Preston, Blackpool and North Wales. Saville kept the plot faithful to its source material, making the film essentially a sound retread of the earlier silent versions, with only a small number of minor cosmetic adjustments (for example the name of the lead character is changed from Fanny to Jenny, and the fatal accident here results from a bus crash rather than a drowning).