Hard Steel

Hard Steel is a 1942 British drama film directed by Norman Walker and starring Wilfrid Lawson, Betty Stockfeld and John Stuart. It was based on the novel Steel Saraband by Roger Dataller. The film was one of four made by G.H.W. Productions backed by the Rank Organisation. The film follows the rise of an ambitious steel worker as he is appointed to run his local steel mill. He soon outrages the employees with his ruthless behaviour - and his negligence leads to the accidental death of one of the workers. As the Second World War breaks out he realises what he has become, and seeks a chance of redemption.

Hard Steel
Directed by	Norman Walker
Written by	Roger Dataller (novel) Lydia Hayward
Produced by	James B. Sloan
Starring	Wilfrid Lawson Betty Stockfeld John Stuart George Carney
Cinematography	Claude Friese-Greene
Edited by	Sam Simmonds
Music by	Percival Mackey
Production company	G.H.W. Productions
Distributed by	General Film Distributors
Release date	18 May 1942
Running time	86 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Cast

• Wilfrid Lawson as Walter Haddon
• Betty Stockfeld as Freda Haddon
• John Stuart as Alan Saunders
• George Carney as Bert Mortimer
• Joan Kemp-Welch as Janet Mortimer
• James Harcourt as Jim Calver
• Frank Atkinson as Dick Sefton
• Arthur Hambling as Mr. Lamport
• John Turnbull as Mr. Rowlandson
• Hay Petrie as Mr. Kissack
• Mignon O'Doherty as Mrs. Kissack
• Philip Godfrey as Forester
• Cameron Hall as Flavell
• Charles Rolfe as Richards
• Kenneth Griffith as Dixon
• Harry Riley as Phillips
• H Victor Weske as Bateman
• Charles Groves as Old Sam
• Clifton Boyne as Carter
• D.J. Williams as Jimpson
• Leonard Sharp as Baker
• Roberta Read as Bertha
• Roddy Hughes as Coroner
• Arthur Seaton as Newcombe
• Dane Gordon as Willis
• David Trickett as Tommy Mortimer
• Angela Glynne as Bunty Phillips

Bibliography

• Murphy, Robert. Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48. Routledge, 1992.

External links

• Hard Steel at IMDb