The Luddites

Directed by Richard Broad
1987    51m
Drama, Documentary, History
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1988 Thames Television drama-documentary about the West Riding Luddites, made as if it were a contemporary documentary about the Luddites, a group of Yorkshire men who banded together in 1812 in secret societies and destroyed the machines which were putting them out of work.
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Cast of The Luddites
  • Steven AlveyHenry Smith
  • Ray ArmstrongMilitia Sargent
  • Dicken AshworthWilliam Thorpe
  • David BecalickGeorge Meller
  • Jim BywaterWilliam Cartwright
  • Charles CollingwoodDavid Ricardo
  • Jeannie CrowtherMrs Armitage
  • David FleeshmanEnoch Taylor
  • Stephen FrostWilliam Hinchcliffe
  • Peter GeevesPoor Law Officer
  • John GrahamEdward Baines
  • Alexander JohnNarrator
  • Norman MannSurgeon
  • Anthony MilnerWilliam Horsfall
  • Henry MoxonHome Secretary
  • Victoria O'KeefeAnne Bamforth
  • Stephen PetcherBen Walker
  • Neil PhillipsJohn Bamforth
  • Joanna Phillips-LaneMary Bamforth
  • John RinghamJoseph Radcliffe
  • Allan SurteesJohn Baines
  • Raymond WitchPrison Chaplin

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