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A serial story of the old South by James Dyrenforth
Music by Kenneth Leslie-Smith with interpolated spirituals
Episode 2, Gathering storms
Cast
BBC Revue Chorus and Fred Hartley and his Sextet
Produced by Eric Fawcett and James Dyrenforth
Here is the second instalment of a serial by the collaborators of ' Hocus-Pocus ' and ' Hey, Listen '. The scene is Georgia, period over a hundred years ago. The owner of the cotton plantation prefers drinking his mint julep on the verandah to supervising the work. What an opportunity for his overseer to play the villain!
There is a handsome young English-man about the place, and he and the plantation owner's daughter provide the love interest.

Contributors

Unknown:
James Dyrenforth
Music By:
Kenneth Leslie-Smith
Music By:
Fred Hartley
Produced By:
Eric Fawcett
Produced By:
James Dyrenforth
Capt the Hon Edward Ford-Joyce, of the Admiralty:
Ewart Scott
Lieut Perry Renstone, R N:
Ivan Brandt
Col Dangerfield:
MacDonald Parke
Mrs Dangerfield:
Eileen Draycott
Lucy Ellen Dangerfield:
Mary Alice Collins
Mr Carter (overseer):
Charles Forsythe
Frank (foreman):
Ernest Jay
Fatty Lija (cook):
Norris Smith
Mammie Lily (his wife):
Amy Veness
Georgiana (their daughter) played by:
Joan Miller
Georgiana (their daughter) sung by:
Evelyn Dove
Mizzy (their half-witted son):
James Dyrenforth
Mr Harry Clinton:
Sydney Keith
Mrs Clinton:
Adeline Seamon
Conjur Woman:
Elinore Farrell
Kobee:
Uriel Porter

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