Cinema: Black & White in Britain

Flame in the Streets. "Jacko, you've got more principles than a monkey's got fleas." That's what the factory owner says, and any mug at the bench would say the same of Jacko Palmer (John Mills). He's the best man in the shop, bar none. He's a hard worker, a faithful husband, a devoted father and a loyal subject of the Queen. But first, last and always Jacko is a union man: first at every meeting and the last to go, president of the shop council since the year dot. What's right for the union is right for Jacko. and what's wrong...

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