Jacqueline (film)
Jacqueline | |
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Directed by | Roy Ward Baker |
Starring | John Gregson |
Music by | Cedric Thorpe Davie |
Cinematography | Geoffrey Unsworth |
Edited by | John D. Guthridge |
Production company |
George H. Brown Productions |
Distributed by | Rank |
Release dates | 5 June 1956 |
Running time | 89 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Jacqueline is a 1956 British drama film shot in Belfast and directed by Roy Ward Baker. It is based on the novel The Grand Man (1954) by Catherine Cookson.[1]
Plot
Steel worker Mike McNeil's drinking spirals out of control when he loses his job due to vertigo at the Belfast shipyard. But his devoted young daughter Jacqueline vows to help him. She attempts to persuade a tough land-owner to give her troubled dad another chance.[2]
Cast
- John Gregson as Mike McNeil
- Kathleen Ryan as Elizabeth McNeil
- Jacqueline Ryan as Jacqueline McNeil
- Noel Purcell as Mr. Owen
- Cyril Cusack as Mr. Flannagan
- Tony Wright as Jack McBride
- Maureen Swanson as Maggie
- Liam Redmond as Mr. Lord
- Maureen Delany as Mrs. McBride
- Richard O'Sullivan as Michael
- Marie Kean as Mrs. Flannagan
- J.G. Devlin as Mr. Lord's servant
- Harold Goldblatt as Schoolmaster
Critical reception
Britmovie called the film "gushingly sentimental";[3] while Sky Movies called it "a likeable little drama with earnest performances and atmospheric background detail."[4]
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