The Fifteen Streets (1989)

01/01/1989 (GB) • 1h 44m

Drama, History, Romance, TV Movie

Overview

In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher of his highly intelligent younger sister Kathy and daughter of a rich family. Their love is doomed by the social difference, but the vigorous Mary refuses to allow outer circumstances destroying their love.

Top Billed Cast

Owen Teale

John O'Brien

Sean Bean

Dominic O'Brien

Clare Holman

Mary Llewellyn

Billie Whitelaw

Beatrice Llewellyn

Ian Bannen

Peter Bracken

Jane Horrocks

Christine Bracken

Mark Mulholland

Fr. O'Malley

Anny Tobin

Mary Ellen O'Brien

Leslie Schofield

Shane O'Brien


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

based on novel or book

rich woman poor man

teacher

sibling rivalry

poverty

shipbuilding

british class system

dockworker

1900s

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