Richard Attenborough

Pier Angeli

Michael Craig

Bernard Lee

Alfred Burke

Geoffrey Keen

Laurence Naismith

Russell Napier

Penelope Horner

Brian Bedford

Brian Murray

Norman Bird

Beckett Bould

Oliver Reed

Edna Petrie

Lloyd Pearson

Norman Shelley

Daniel Farson

Alan Whicker

Ronald Hines

Bernard Horsfall

Roger Maxwell

George Murcell

Gerald Sim

Marianne Stone

Michael Wynne

David Jarrett

Noel Hood

Marilyn Green

Stephen Lindo

Irene Barrie

Karal Gardner

Tony Doonan

Frederick Peisley

Piers Keelan

Michael Lees

Eve Eden

Lisa Page

Dolores Mantez

John Charlesworth

Redmond Phillips

Michael Raghan

Jessica Spencer

Deering Wells

Graham Rowe

Roland Bartrop

Guy Green

Bryan Forbes

Malcolm Arnold

Anthony Harvey

Laurie Ridley

Richard Gregson

Maureen Goldner

Jack Rix

Ray Simm

Harry Frampton

Barbara Ritchie

Arthur Ibbetson

Buster Ambler

Julian Mackintosh

Gerry Massy-Collier

Basil Rayburn

Inez Easton

Red Law

Beryl Booth

Drama

The Angry Silence

Beaver Films

United Kingdom

English

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Though Richard Attenborough takes top billing in this drama, I think Bernard Lee actually delivers the more potent performance as the shop steward "Bert". He calls for an unofficial strike of the workers at an engineering plant. Out they go, well most of them do - and it is soon clear to the audience that there is an agitator amongst the workforce intent on using this dispute for a greater purpose. We also encounter a few local hoodlums who have few scruples when it comes to persecuting - violently at times - those few workers who cross their picket line and continue to work. "Curtis" (Attenborough) is one such man. He already has a young son, and his wife is expecting his second child - so money is too tight for him not to get a wage. Pretty soon he is the victim of a vendetta from his erstwhile colleagues as they ostracise him completely. Director Bryan Forbes and co-star Michael Craig ("Wallace") had a hand in the writing and that is powerful. It generates a genuine sense of menace as those daring to break the strike find their property and their physical safety compromised whilst their erstwhile friends struggle with their consciences. Brian Bedford also stands out as the thuggish "Barrett" and there is also a potent, if sparing, contribution from Pier Angeli as the young man's wife "Anna". Ordinarily, one might expect this story to be about the abuse of power by an employer; here, though, the abuses are clearly coming from those with a broader agenda quite capable of mobilising a workforce of political sheep. The ending is rather rushed - almost incomplete, unfortunately but the ensemble and the toic work really well here to create a thought-provoking piece of cinema that packs a lot into ninety minutes.

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