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PLAY OF THE WEEK [ITV, 1956-66]: The FIRST THUNDER
(1966)
- Copyright date
- Not available
- Production start date
- 04/11/1965
- Production end date
- Not available
Production countries
- Great Britain
- Notes
- Not available
Library Synopsis
A play about the troubled beginnings of the Union movement on Dartmoor in the late 19th century. Whitburn, a young idealist, comes to fight for the rights of the farm workers and finds an ally in his employer's daughter.
Top five credits
- Director
- CURRER-BRIGGS, Michael
- Production Company
- Rediffusion
- Script
- SMITH, VIAN
Top five cast
- Whitburn
- MOSS, Basil
- Charlotte
- LEIGH-HUNT, Barbara
- Jacob Manning
- TROUGHTON, Patrick
- Mrs. Manning
- RAYNOR, Sheila
- Mortimer
- VERNON, Richard