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The Rank and File
Ken Loach, 1971

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Director: Ken Loach
Writer: Jim Allen
Cinematographer: Charles Stewart
Film Editor: Roy Watts
Producer: Graeme MacDonald
Production Company: BBC
Country & Year: UK, 1971
Runtime: 78 min
Language: English

Cast: Peter Kerrigan; Billy Dean; Tommy Summers; Joan Flood; Johnny Gee; Neville Smith; Mike Hayden.


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The Wilkinson glass factory in the Midlands believe they are a caring employer - even providing a bag of coal as a Christmas bonus - and have always had a good relationship with the local trade union. But their workers see things differently when faced by a management offensive and form a Rank and File Strike Committee. The committee expect harassment from management but surely their union leaders in London will stand by them. Won't they?

Jim Allen's script was inspired by the Pilkington Gass strike in St.Helens and closely follows the events that had taken place there in 1970. It was written at a time when the Labour government was proposing legislation to make unofficial strikes illegal and when trade union leaders were seen to be too close to the government.


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DVDRip by Haller @ RM | DVD Source: BBC/2entertain
MKV | 1.50 GB | 78 min | 3 streams (a/v/subs:en)
H.264 | 720x576 | 4:3 dar | 25 fps | 2608 kbps | crf 21
AAC | 2 ch | 48 KHz | 160 kbps CBR | En


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ed2k: Ken.Loach.At.The.BBC.[D6.2].The.Rank.And.File.(1971).DVDRip.H264.AAC-[Hal...ldeMule.org].mkv  [1.51 Gb] [Stats]

English subtitles (vobsub) muxed into mkv container;
also available as a srt file.


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Extra: Interview with Ken Loach (2011)


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You were making these dramas within the BBC. Do you think the BBC would be prepared these days to make such controversial films?
Well, I think there are individual producers who would like to have a go at this kind of work. But I think that what has happened in television is that it is now so micromanaged from the top that the danger is squeezed out of it. I think that there is now a mentality that drama has to be safe and all the danger has to be squeezed out of it, and that everyone is in fear for their job. And that there are so many layers of bureaucracy now, of producers, of executive producers, of story editors, of script consultants, of whatever, over and over and over again, that actually they squeeze the life out of it. And the voice of the individual writer, with all its quirks and idiosyncrasies and individual talent, is lost. Directors are, again, are in a straitjacket. Now that culture of fear, that culture of micromanagement, a culture of passing everything up and down the hierarchy is actually killing the originality and creativity. And I think that's a great tragedy, not only for the people who could make good work, but also for the audience. (Ken Loach, 2011; interviewed by Dave Calhoun).

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DVDRip by Haller @ RM | DVD Source: BBC/2entertain
MKV | 138 MB | 30 min | 3 streams (a/v/subs:en)
H.264 | 720x576 | 16:9 dar | 25 fps | 514 kbps | crf 24
AAC | 2 ch | 48 KHz | 128 kbps CBR | En


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ed2k: Ken.Loach.At.The.BBC.[D6.3].[Extra].Interview.With.Ken.Loach.(2011).DVDRi...ldeMule.org].mkv  [138.37 Mb] [Stats]

English subtitles (vobsub) muxed into mkv container;
also available as a srt file.


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Today Ken Loach is an internationally feted filmmaker. But he was also once a prophet in his own country. Working with a generation of radicals, he excelled at what became known as the drama-documentary - a TV genre that was socially engaged, aesthetically experimental and politically influential. It made working class people the subject of public service broadcasting. This essential collection has many of the key works which now deserve the widest rescreening for their enduring relevance and artistic courage. [socialistreview.org.uk]



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