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Flame in the Streets

Flame in the Streets

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 19, 1961

Runtime

1h 33m

Genres

Drama

User Score

58%

Original Title

Flame in the Streets

Production Companies

The Rank Organisation, Somerset Films

Director

Roy Ward Baker

Description

Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in the burgeoning West Indian community of early 1960s Britain. Trades union leader (Mills) fights for the rights of a black worker but struggles with the news that his own daughter is planning to marry a West Indian, much against his own logic and the prejudice of his wife.