Not only is this racially-charged/socially conscious film a prime example of "Kitchen Sink Dramas" from the early to mid 1960's England, but the rebellious main character literally washes blood off his hands in one...
From the (credited as) "Coloured Boy" who his progressive sister Ann Lynn's contentedly/intrepidly dating in a stage-style story mostly taking place at a small home, where passive patriarch Donald Pleasence spends more time with his rabbits than teenagers. Especially a no-good son, played by squared jawed Johnny Briggs, who doesn't need nor care of him anyway...
As a venom-spouting racist, the future CORONATION STREET soap actor is fitfully intense and edgy in the role...
When not at home he's hanging at the local soda shop where one buddy (David Hemmings) brings and tunes a guitar and another (musician Norman Gunn) sings...
And all get sporadically chewed out by local lass Angela Douglas while the urgency/suspense occurs in the 11th hour, back home, when... as the token pressing cop presses in... dad must choose whether to tell the truth or join frantic wife Hilda Fenemore's cover up of her son's attack/murder the black kid...
Making THE WIND OF CHANGE, despite its bland, common title, far less breezy than the performances leading up to what really matters...
Yet not without bizarre and ambiguous loose ends, like the fact the perfect "sensitive" black boyfriend was actually a cheater, and the idealistic dad's sole black rabbit has the name of... the N-word.
From the (credited as) "Coloured Boy" who his progressive sister Ann Lynn's contentedly/intrepidly dating in a stage-style story mostly taking place at a small home, where passive patriarch Donald Pleasence spends more time with his rabbits than teenagers. Especially a no-good son, played by squared jawed Johnny Briggs, who doesn't need nor care of him anyway...
As a venom-spouting racist, the future CORONATION STREET soap actor is fitfully intense and edgy in the role...
When not at home he's hanging at the local soda shop where one buddy (David Hemmings) brings and tunes a guitar and another (musician Norman Gunn) sings...
And all get sporadically chewed out by local lass Angela Douglas while the urgency/suspense occurs in the 11th hour, back home, when... as the token pressing cop presses in... dad must choose whether to tell the truth or join frantic wife Hilda Fenemore's cover up of her son's attack/murder the black kid...
Making THE WIND OF CHANGE, despite its bland, common title, far less breezy than the performances leading up to what really matters...
Yet not without bizarre and ambiguous loose ends, like the fact the perfect "sensitive" black boyfriend was actually a cheater, and the idealistic dad's sole black rabbit has the name of... the N-word.