• Rating:
• Genre: Drama
• Themes: Social Injustice
• Director: Andrew Mollo
• Main Cast: Miles Halliwell
• Release Year: 1975
• Country: UK
• Run Time: 95 minutes

Plot

Winstanley is the dramatized history of a Reformation-era religious sect called the Diggers. A nonviolent aggregation, the Diggers are devoted to tilling the soil that has been neglected by the British bluebloods. It isn't long before the landowners send their minions to burn out and kill the Diggers. Miles Halliwell heads the cast as Winstanley, the leader of the movement. Winstanley was directed by film historian/preservationist Kevin Brownlow and documentary maker Andrew Mollo, who redeploy the same documentary technique that they'd utilized on their classic 1964 film It Happened Here. The script, also by Brownlow and Mollo, was adapted from Comrade Jacob, a novel by David Caute. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Miles Halliwell - Gerrard Winstanley

Jerome Willis - Gen. Lord Fairfax
Dawson France - Capt. Gladman

Credit

Andrew Mollo - Art Director; Andrew Mollo - Director; Andrew Mollo - Producer; Andrew Mollo - Screenwriter; Sergey Prokofiev - Composer (Music Score); Ernest Vincze - Cinematographer; Kevin Brownlow - Director; Kevin Brownlow - Producer; Kevin Brownlow - Screenwriter; Miles Halliwell - Cinematographer; David Caute - Book Author

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