Ken Loach Cathy Come Home

Ken loach s celebrated cathy come home 1966 among them.

Ken loach cathy come home. With carol white ray brooks winifred dennis wally patch. Cathy come home is a tv play from 1966 that uses a documentary style to depict the descent of a young couple trying to to find housing in post war britain. His socially critical directing style and socialist ideals are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty poor cow 1967 homelessness cathy come home 1966 and labour rights riff raff 1991 and the navigators 2001 loach s film kes 1969 was voted the seventh greatest british film of the 20th.

Kenneth charles loach born 17 june 1936 is an english filmmaker. Cathy come home is a 1966 bbc television play by jeremy sandford produced by tony garnett and directed by ken loach about homelessness. Yet play for today would break the mould once again.

71 people died some survivors are still homeless. In many ways i daniel blake can be seen as a companion piece to cathy come home loach s seminal 1966 film about a young family s descent into homelessness which resulted in a parliamentary. S unday saw the bbc s 50th anniversary screening of the landmark film cathy come home written by jeremy sandford and directed by ken loach.

Directed by ken loach. Cathy loses her home husband and eventually her child through the inflexibility of the british welfare system. F ifty years ago today approximately 12 million viewers tuned in to bbc1 on uk television to watch cathy come home.

A 1998 radio times readers poll voted it the best single television drama and a 2000 industry poll rated it as the second best british television programme ever made. First broadcast in 1966 this drama about a young. They would have had some idea of what to expect.

Cathy come home 1966 with carol white cathy and ray brooks reg.