TV-Y 1954 01:23:00 Drama Comedy

The Crowded Day

"One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store."

Director John Guillermin

Cast John Gregson, Dora Bryan, Joan Hickson, Thora Hird, Sid James, Prunella Scales, Sidney Taffler, Rachel Roberts, Joan Rice.Dandy Nichols, Richard Wattis, Cyril Raymond (the husband in Brief Encounter) Vera Day, Freda Jackson, Kynaston Reeves, william frank

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Synopsis

Excellent film about department store girls living in a hostel together that includes an unwanted pregnancy as well as some light romance. This film looks at the position of women in the 1950s and in particular the difficulties that they encountered. Directed by John Guillermin ('Towering Inferno' and Death on the Nile) script by Talbot Rothwell (wrote the 'Carry Ons')