South Riding (1938)

"Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, ...  

Director: Victor Saville

Writers: Winifred Holtby (novel), Ian Dalrymple (screenplay) 

Stars: Edna Best, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Gwenn