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Bookmark this pageFlame in the Streets (1961)
Director: Roy Baker
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A relatively early attempt to come to terms - in melodramatic form - with racism and the aspirations of black immigrants in Britain. Mills owns a furniture factory and is proud of his tolerance, endorsing a Jamaican's candidacy as shop steward. However, enlightened shop floor attitudes are one thing; his daughter marrying a black is quite another. It's a bit like a social thesis - Discuss - but its background of poor housing and gangs of teddy boys roving the streets like the Ku Klux Klan is convincing enough.Author: ATu
Cast & crew
Director: Roy Baker
Producer: Roy Baker
Cast: John Mills, Brenda de Banzie, Sylvia Syms, Earl Cameron, Johnny Sekka, Ann Lynn, Wilfrid Brambell full cast
Duration: 93 mins
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