7.2
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden (1976)
February 24, 19761h 26mEN
7.0
2 votes
Overview
Trilogy of one-act plays based on short stories by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. ‘Clay’ is the story of a men who neglects his wife in favour of his land. ‘Smeddum’ is the story of a matriarch’s attempt to control her brood. ‘Greenden’ is the story of a city woman moving to the country with her husband.
Director
Moira ArmstrongWriters
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
English
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CinemaSerf
7.0If you've read his "Sunset Song" trilogy, then you'll know that the devil was always in the detail with Lewis Grassic Gibbon and so trying to squish three short stories into ninety minutes here was always going to mean much of that detail was going under the cart. It's a story about a rural Scottish community across three generations as livelihoods, priorities, and attitudes start to shift from the traditional male-dominated, superstitious, gossip-mongering, agrarian subsistence lifestyle to ones more likely to offer something less mundane and routine, especially for the women-folk. Bill Craig…
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