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2/5 Radio Times Music by Clifton Parker Edited by Max Brenner Director Clarence Elder Music director Clifton Parker | 5.8/10 IMDb Directed by Clarence Elder Cinematography Francis Carver Initial release 3 September 1947 Box office 104,804 GBP (UK) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Clarence Elder and Neil M Gunn Starring Clifford Evans
Helen Shingler Production company Associated British Picture Corporation Cast Helen Shingler, Clifford Evans Similar Passage Home, The Galloping Major, Abdul the Damned, So Evil My Love, The Bargee | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Silver Darlings is a 1947 British film about Scottish fishermen, based on a 1941 novel by Neil M. Gunn.
The film is set in the early 19th century and after the highland clearances. Catrine and her family, like many other dispossessed Scots, turn their hands to Herring fishing (the so-called Silver Darlings of the title). Catrine's husband is press-ganged into the Royal Navy and dies at sea. Catrine is left widowed with a young son to raise.
After some time, Roddy proposes to Catrine, but her son Finn, now older, is very upset about the engagement and everyone is trying to avoid conscription into the Royal Navy.
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