Starring: Petula Clark, Diana Dors, Natasha Parry
Director: Charles Crichton
Running Time: 80 mins
Certificate: PG
Release Date: January 21st 2013

In the pantheon of Ealing films, Dance Hall is one of the ones that normally gets ignored. That’s partly because when it was released it was dismissed by male critics who looked at is as rather irrelevant, due to the fact it was about working class women. However in recent years it’s had a bit of a reappraisal, not because it’s actually an overlooked masterpiece, but because it’s one of the few movies made not long after the Second World War that does concentrate on the lives of normal women. [Read more…]