When two arms close around her...She knows she's home. Two arms will do. Any two arms will do.
Joy lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age, she marries and has a child–with an abusive thief who quickly ends up incarcerated. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to give her some happiness but who also ends up locked up. She then takes up with a series of seedy types who offer nothing but momentary pleasure–if that.
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Grave, earnest, prestige and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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Cast
- Carol WhiteJoy
- Terence StampDave Fuller
- John BindonTom
- Queenie WattsAunt Emm
- Kate WilliamsBeryl
- Ken CampbellMr. Jacks
- Gladys DawsonBet
- Paddy JoycePhoto Studio Guvnor
- George ToveyPhotographer
- Billy MurrayTom's Mate
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- Ken LoachDirector
- Ken LoachScreenplay
- Nell DunnWriter
- Brian ProbynDirector of Photography
- DonovanOriginal Music Composer
- Roy WattsEditor
- Joseph JanniProducer
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