Johnny Briggs can't find a job to suit him, and is in a constant seething fury about the racial changes gong on about him. Father Donald Pleasance is a mild fellow, seemingly more interested in the rabbits he raises than anything else. Mother Hilda Fennimore shops with the neighbor and talks constantly, saying nothing. And sister Ann Lynn has been brought home by the police with perhaps a scarring injury on her face when a gang of White boys attacked her and her Black male friend when they were walking to the bus stop.
It's one of those films which offers a problem, but no clear answer to the racism and growing endemic cycle of dead-end jobs in an England which had been promising a lot more. That's all right. Sometimes it's a good start to bring a problem to light. The performances are all solid.
It's one of those films which offers a problem, but no clear answer to the racism and growing endemic cycle of dead-end jobs in an England which had been promising a lot more. That's all right. Sometimes it's a good start to bring a problem to light. The performances are all solid.