Up The Junction (1968)
Available on region 2 DVD

Synopsis: When Ken Loach adapted Nell Dunn's provocative novel Up the Junction for BBC TV's Wednesday Play series in the 1960s, it shocked the nation. Released not long afterwards, director Peter Collinson's big screen version was more polished, and therein lay his undoing. Loach's semi-documentary style gave Battersea the suitably bleak look that made the central character's decision to move there from Chelsea seem both politically significant and socially courageous. Collinson, however, offers a working-class wonderland and has Suzy Kendall play the girl as a cross between a 1960s supermodel and a melodramatic sob sister.

Cast: Suzy Kendall, Dennis Waterman.
Runtime: 119 min