Film
The Luddites
United Kingdom- Age rating
- U
- Director
- Richard Broad
- Year
- 1988
In 1812 there were violent disturbances in Yorkshire when new machines were introduced into the wool industry. This film is an interpretation of those events made in the style of a documentary.
Top cast
Steven Alvey
Henry Smith
Ray Armstrong
Militia Sargent
Dicken Ashworth
William Thorpe
David Becalick
George Meller
Jim Bywater
William Cartwright
Charles Collingwood
David Ricardo
Jeannie Crowther
Mrs Armitage
David Fleeshman
Enoch Taylor
Stephen Frost
William Hinchcliffe
Peter Geeves
Poor Law Officer
John Graham
Edward Baines
Alexander John
Narrator
Norman Mann
Surgeon
Anthony Milner
William Horsfall
Henry Moxon
Home Secretary
Victoria O'Keefe
Anne Bamforth
Stephen Petcher
Ben Walker
Neil Phillips
John Bamforth
Directed by
Richard Broad
Produced by
Taylor Downing
