This Is My Street (1964)
- Directed by
- Sidney Hayers
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Rating
- 5.9 of 10 from 10 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A bored housewife in a run-down London neighborhood begins an affair with her mother's lodger. The film explores the consequences of her secret relationship amid the constraints of her daily life.
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What happens
This Is My Street is a 1964 British black and white kitchen sink drama film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring June Ritchie, Ian Hendry, Avice Landone, Annette Andre, Mike Pratt, Philippa Gail and John Hurt. The screenplay was by Bill MacIlwraith, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Nan Maynard. The film concerns a bored housewife living in a run-down inner city London house who begins an affair with her mother's lodger. The film is a rare non-comedy from Peter Rogers. It reunited the two leads, Ritchie and Hendry, from their previous dramedy film Live Now – Pay Later (1962). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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