I was shown this film at Junior School in the 60's. For some reason the Nuns at the Catholic school though this may be a warning but at the time we didn't understand :o/ But it's a film I always remember seeing
I remember seeing this film when I was 15 and thinking how well acted it was. I watched it again on UTube and realise that today there is still shortage of housing and if you lose your job through no fault of your own there is very little help available. Carol White and Ray Brooks are superb in the main roles.
Very powerful , and no doubt relevant at the time. However we now have a different set of problems - council estates full of anti social scumbags and services which fail to intervene when kids are being abused.
birmingham theatre school are going to be performing this after the october half term... its truely amazing to be performing this.. as the story .film is very gripping
Those social workers ------ What's the difference between a social worker & a Rotweiller? You'll get your kids back from a Rotweiller albeit slightly chewed!! Seriously though, unless the child is in an abusive family it has to be better to leave them there rather than wrench them from a loving home
but why the government did not help the mother and the father? I think all laws were put by human is not perfect.We should fallow the instructions of god .
a real piece of social history. poverty trap, overcrowding, rachman, no homes to let if you had children. if you enjoyed this, poor cow is another film in a similar vein.
watched this years ago on dvd. there is an extra ending where the living conditions of people in the 1960s is filmed.
is it on u tube? some people with small children thought themselves lucky to have a roof over their head-they lived in bombed out houses with no windows or furniture.
other houses were being held up with planks 2stop the roof falling in.
people in tower blocks and council houses are very lucky now.
the taxpayers need to watch how their money is being spent.
do you no what makes me?sorry to swear,so fucking mad.is that fathers who dont give a dam about there babys. i have 3 daughters. 1 is 24 .1 is 7. and the next 1
is 5.and i have a grand daughter who is 2 and a half.i could not cut off contact with them as i could no more stop breathing. thay are my life.iam 46 years old and my babys will come first.
Thank you for sharing these Loach films, they are important social comments on bare life and watching them gives an insight on the harshness of living situations many go through. It should give the more previleged an understanding of difficulties others have to suffer & the politics of providing for all, not just those who control the purse.
I'm not Chinese. And you'd think a pedant with no life would be sure to spell 'thumbs' correctly.
It is entirely fine to break grammar rules. The rules of English are almost entirely arbitrary, given that it is a mongrel tongue, hence its vigour, survival and dominance. They were cobbled together to try and help foreigners learn. Lucky Shakespeare wasn't listening to people like you.
hello dose any no the film ladybird ladybird now this is one of m,y best films i heve ever seen for the time it was mad, it is so strong and shocking i think it the best film he ever mad
Come on, come on here to India ...ah ..good ol' ethical,spiritual socialist India....Ken Loach would find it the ideal land.....where the Government is expected to provide home,food and clothing to the "Sweet innocent poor" people ....( You are not sweet and innocent if you work well and are evil enough to be well off and moneyed!!)...but hell, why is every govt program ridden with failure and corruption then??Good luck Europe,u are heading the same way.Let's hope the Americans are wiser!!
Typical socialist propaganda...by a typical socialist spin doctor "COCK ROACH/Ken Loach"...Whom does these socialist bleeding hearts try to fool?? A "Sweet n innocent " couple decide to have a baby & buy a home (It's NOT their fault that they couldn't pay)..D man loses job due to bad luck (Govt to d rescue?),but hey, even then they produce 2 babies more( it's not a crime to have babies u see...all babies need to live is LOVE)..and it's somebody else's fault!!Another excuse for more GOVERNMENT!
Fitting that after all attempts were made to change the welfare system and make it better the Tories come along and tell us we are being too nice. Cathy Come Home is about to become a reality once again, all because people don't want to pay slightly higher taxes. Still as long as the wealthy are ok, who cares about the poor eh?
Haha this was the welfare state in its' prime, queues, waiting lists, breaking up families, how social do you think that is, chasing people out of wherever they find to live....?
@megagagnon1 Agreed why can't people get on their bike. This country has too many layabouts who wont just leave their kids at home to get a job even when their isn't one. Makes you glad we have a man like Cameron in charge of this country... Oh sorry did I say glad, I meant sick! Being a tory is alright if your rich and don't care about other people, but those of us who are human beings have to suffer all because so many people are so selfish.
@amirtoma either way, I see this as an interesting conversation (that I originally interrupted), not an attack on whatever you think of history and language! As long as noone gets defensive of course
@amirtoma Maybe that's why there are so many issues there and not here then? Evolving language doesn't take some fool to try and modernize it as if he knew better. Maybe arabic was one of the most beautiful simple and rich languages 2000 years ago but ours isn't always so beautiful, it has been down right horrid in the past and words come and go as the people see fit. Language isn't some god given tool, it's OUR language as human being to adapt to our changing lives as morality evolves with it
@amirtoma No, society and language is ever changing, it's odd you use the word broken to seem do disastrous. Change doesn't mean a fracturing...but people are always changing and fighting, that's what makes life interesting and worthwhile. Not that war is worthwhile, that's the underside of the point. That people can discuss it is interesting
@amirtoma .....but of course it's ok to break the rules of grammar, specially in that it's not supposed to make sense. You're not supposed to read Cathy Come Home and think "ah yes I'm glad they made sense out of that statement, good on them" it's a basic play on words, which fit together and sound snappy. It's a name, why should it read as a plausible sentence? You're either pulling everyone's legs or just completely out of it with your claims of knowledge..
omg im 51 always heard of this film thought i must have watched it at some time in my life ..how wrong i was .. its horrid isnt it .. familys were like that all around me when i was young but thank god the one time we + 3 kids were made homeless my dad had a 3 bedroom ... hope it doesnt happen again hubby gets made redundant at xmas..but at least my kids are grown
@amirtoma Your comments are beyond belief. It is supposed to be an order and it does not require a comma. It is, hello, a film title. Have you never noticed that in film and literature it is ok to break the rules of grammar for dramatic effect? An example might be beginning sentences with conjunctions.
As new labour has more or less bankrupt the country we can all look forward to a return to the good old days when the homeless covered the streets. Big thanks to Blair and Brown who using the Robert Mugarbi system of government managed to take a reasonably decent country and turn it into a poverty stricken shit hole.
It's all said but once again it shows the importance of not taking on too many financial obligations and having a nest egg to act as a cushion when emergencies come around.
LIFE SUCKS..... THERE WILL ALWAYS BE SUFFERING IN THE WORLD; IT'S PART OF LIFE. THE GOVERNMENT SUCKS FOR ALL THE REGULATIONS, AND THE COUPLE SUCKS TOO FOR HAVING THESE CHILDREN THEY OBVIOUSLY CAN NOT SUPPORT...THERE IS SHARED RESPONSIBILITY IN THIS MORAL TALE. IT'S JUST THE WAY IT IS AND THERE WILL BE NO HEAVEN OR HELL FOR ANYONE, JUST THE GRIM REALITY OF HUMAN SUFFERING......
I cant believe her husband left them to fend for themselves!! Poor Cathy she had to go through hell all by herself!!
I hate the fact that the government feels like they are God! Its wrong to take children from a loving mother!! A nd the bas part is when children are really being mistreated they dont do anything at al!!!
@terector1 in many ways this has not changed. on the surface enough has changed to keep you onside, but it wasnt too long before this in history they were shipping all these folk off as criminals to the colonies. right now in UK they are cutting housing benefits, YET making squating illegal! and spoon feeding scare stories about squating. so whats they gonna do with all the folk whose benefits get cut? all our politicians are working for corporates, so they'll just legIislate to suite them
@terector1 fyrther more, now that things in UK are the way they are becoming, our politicians and royals are in controversion of the magna carta and constitutional bill of rights (yes, we have them still), these are an agreement between us and the crown and our government that they are we all serve each other. if they dont phold thee rights, it is actually a form of treason. in a sense they are making sure that any choice outwith THEIR choices are made dangerous and legislated against.
@terector1 and lastly, now that there are many people getting angry, they bring over foreign labor who are also suffering same socio-political-financial abuse as we, and use them to evict us. very similar to old roman tactic. they know u wont fight or evict your own (without coercsion) so its cheaper to bring in foreign labour to evict you that way, as the foreign labor are also desperate and have to do the job.eg, Poles used to evict gypsies in UK. in US they do it by inventing DRUG LAWS
This TV film changed my life, I remember watching as a young lad in East London and on winning a literature prize for writing an essay on homelessness sponsored by the new charity Shelter.
This film should be played and played and played to warn the people trapped on benefits to get out before the government controls you.
Nothing really changed still people find it hard to get somewhere to live. Men and women only get help if they've come our of prison or out of a mental home or institution. Is it any wonder that young people get pregnant. Single people go into a d group.....basically no chance. a being priority.
What an eye-opening film - provokes a lot of thought for how hard things were. Although I live in a nice place and have a good lifestyle, my family were evicted when I was 8 years old and I ended up in temporary housing. Although mine was when it was the 80s, this film still brought back memories. I dread to think what it is like for some people these days - I expect a lot of people face similar struggles, despite a more modern culture!
@sebastianhope81 ...you are right in what you say regards people still struggling today..but not to worry folks its going to get even worse for those at the bottom of the ladder thanks to the coalition government...for rest assured there is real poverty to come ...some unfortunates are in for hell!! pity the children...consequent on this, civil unrest is lurking beneath the surface.sad but true..hold tight England for you are in for the ride of your life.
The "baby boomers" are, largely, retired, so I'm not understanding why you're identifying that group as "middle aged" bankers and businessmen. In North America most baby boomers are so limited by their fixed retirement incomes that they are unable to keep the homes that they've spent a lifetime paying the mortgage off on because they can't afford the tax and constantly rising utilities.
I would take a little less 'freedom' (aka a little more disciplined life), a lot more regulations on 'smart' businesses that make profits exploiting people (aka the thoughtlessly berated 'socialism') and a little harder life working straining my brains and the back to such carefree, short-sighted life.
While living on a day-to-day basis, without a decent amount set aside for future, the priorities should be set wisely at an individual level (smoking, drinking, children...)
bravo, mr. Loach, you've created a work of art. Thumbs up if you think that this eye-opening brilliance deserves more views than the uncreative dog shit that if fred
This is a warning to people about the plight of the homeless in Britain.This documentary maybe set in the 60's'But could be set in the present time.For God Sake!Wake-Up everyone!...VOTE AGAINST CON/DEM CUTS!!
Carol White is the most underrated British actress of her generation. She is magnificent and in my opinion a better actor than Julie Christie of her same generation. Who knows why she never became the big star she richly deserved to be.
This has got to be one of the most desparate films I have ever seen, and the shocking thing is it is borderline documentary. No wonder middle aged society is in such a mess if their parents wet through, or even saw that grief....
I well remember the era of 'Cathy', Often seeing Women with young kids,Destitute on the streets of Manchester,Either through being homeless or having a violent partner,On more than one occasion,My Mother would bring them in for a feed & bed for a day or two ,At the time (not knowing better) I would moan,mainly because it meant me sharing a bed with my brother,However im sure I turned out a more caring person,because of it
@AnElephantsChild I'd be interested to know where you got those stats from - have you seen footage of London on VE day? Have you seen footage of Berlin (as just one example) on the same day? 16km square of the city was nothing but rubble. Add to that Hamburg, Cologne, Dresden (of course) and plenty of others. Even Coventry doesn't come CLOSE! I'm living in Berlin at the moment and there are huge areas STILL barren, right in the city centre.
@AnElephantsChild Thanks for clarifying this issue. A lot of people try to refute that statement at the end of the film about Britain's failure to replenish the housing stock, something which has been made even worse with the sale of council homes and not enough ones being made to replace them.
Even now we're still living in the legacy of this with a housing crisis. By the 90s there was enough homeless to form a shanty town circling London.
Incidentally Carol White who played Cathy also appeared in a film with Roy Harper called Made - anybody got a copy for upload?? It was "made" around 1972 lol. BTW I was born in 1974, but this era was class, fs the television was more thought provoking that what the likes of X-Factor or BGT will ever be.
BRILLIANT! I like a few others am still teary eyed over this magnificant film. I still can't believe people were treated like this.
I have lost a lot during this recession including my home but at least there is help. I thank God I'm not there but here, no matter how down I feel I won't ever go through this.
i have never felt so saddened by this film and how bad things were , i feel very humble, and gratful full all that i have , which isnt much im a single working mum trying to keep decent and law abiding life for me and my daughter,,,, and were does it get you ,,,,, if your a liar cheat and general scum , you get on in life,,,, the goverments are a bunch of wankers and will meet there judgment in hell !
@thetreacle1 - Yip - fair assessment treacle - While Harld Wilson was posing with The Beatles, shit like this was goin on, but Labour won't tell you that - Ken Loach was a genius in his prime - two people I grew up are in his recent film Tickets, but his recent work is nothing like what he done through the 60's and 70's
@thetreacle1 I agree'..I was brought up in a Back to Back house in Birmingham in the early 60's.There was a hell of a lot of poverty back then.But'Make no mistake'Officialdom hasn't gone away'The swines have still got their greedy noses' in the trough'..i.e.The Bankers'The govenment'The councils...ect...They come fom a different place'..There is always someone to kick you when your down!..Ihope they rot in hell'Who ever was responsible for all that missery..?
I couldn't agree more we are married however and think the same way. I know someone that walked away from her kids (3) and went off with a former housing consultant leaving her husband in his council flat to raise them on his own.. She now owns (thanks to him) around nine propertys world wide. It turns my stomach. She's nothing but a whore in my books!
@1977awm Empathy is never worthless. Most people are aware that at the moment the jobs market is bad also house prices for young people are too high although the interest rate is low if you have saved enough to get a mortgage. Government aren't giving money to bankers and middle aged businessmen they're trying to get the economy moving by supporting businesses. Many bankers getting big bonuses are young and most baby-boomers have no more say in things than anyone else.
@1977awm ....don't agree with the 'arrogantly', 'eating the young', 'punishing'. Sorry if you've had a bad experience. Most older people have a lot more empathy than you think.
@1977awm. Some young people were laughing while enjoying a drink in a bar the other day while pensioners are living off practically nothing with no chance to turn things round, deteriorating health and loneliness.
The story of Cathy's family is scripted but many of the interviews and voiceovers are from people that Mr. Loach spoke with about the welfare state, although I'm not entirely sure if they are the actual interviews or voice over actors reading the transcripts of the interviews.
@The Diamond 909 for the past 10 y Ive owned my own house & run my own business, so i suppose these issues haven't touched me that much but no im not thick, these days you will NOT loose your kids if your made homeless. the local council will have to supply you with emergency housing
@palmer3977 - no the issues havent touched you so be thankful, and don't pretend you know anything about them cos you don't. you take one variable (emergency accomadation provision) and use it to calculate that things have got better..... there's so much more to it.... trust me things have got a lot worse.....and yet on the surface of things it doesn't seem so. one must remain positive in life, but never ignore the truth......its a difficult path.
@The Diamond 909 the recession has just cost me my business & a few months ago we thought we would loose our home coz we couldn't pay our mortgage & we fell 5 months in arrears, we were both in tears virtually every day for 2 months until we managed to get some not poxy much money of the social to pay our mortgage, the social would not pay coz i ran my own business as a carpentry contractor i only made a poxy wage each wk not a fortune still months in arrears
@The Diamond 909 business gone owe money everywhere but at least our home is safe i wont be voting for these twats oh & guess what the banks have recovered so thats gr8 eh
It's soul destroying how relevant this film is today. I thought I had it bad. What a horrible place Britain was post-war. Is it much better now?
danjama 3 months ago
I was shown this film at Junior School in the 60's. For some reason the Nuns at the Catholic school though this may be a warning but at the time we didn't understand :o/ But it's a film I always remember seeing
SirRogue43 3 months ago
wow, studying this at university, that was so sad and incredibly acted
emmafilmandfriends 3 months ago
I'm gonna kill taht dude.
Missimo24 3 months ago
Studying this at the moment at University :)
TheScriptTV 4 months ago
I remember seeing this film when I was 15 and thinking how well acted it was. I watched it again on UTube and realise that today there is still shortage of housing and if you lose your job through no fault of your own there is very little help available. Carol White and Ray Brooks are superb in the main roles.
tracycolmar50 4 months ago
oh my god this was the first book i ever read as a teenager and remember watching this. This is an absolute classic film.
littlepeter1952 4 months ago
Very powerful , and no doubt relevant at the time. However we now have a different set of problems - council estates full of anti social scumbags and services which fail to intervene when kids are being abused.
james7696739 4 months ago
birmingham theatre school are going to be performing this after the october half term... its truely amazing to be performing this.. as the story .film is very gripping
samilinz1 4 months ago
Those social workers ------ What's the difference between a social worker & a Rotweiller? You'll get your kids back from a Rotweiller albeit slightly chewed!! Seriously though, unless the child is in an abusive family it has to be better to leave them there rather than wrench them from a loving home
twocky61 6 months ago
Dad took me out collecting for Shelter after this. It was a transformative experience as Burdetski says. Thanks Mr Loach.
PortmerionChina 6 months ago
but why the government did not help the mother and the father? I think all laws were put by human is not perfect.We should fallow the instructions of god .
Abusaowod 7 months ago
that sex scene was intense
conz0rbsc 7 months ago
a real piece of social history. poverty trap, overcrowding, rachman, no homes to let if you had children. if you enjoyed this, poor cow is another film in a similar vein.
55melmo 9 months ago
One of his later works, along these very same lines, is "Ladybird, Ladybird". It, too, is amazing and disturbing.
MTM60302 9 months ago
This remains as shocking as the first time I saw it many years ago.
aaarrrggghhhh 9 months ago 2
classic case of how the state splits familys up by force by hook or by crook,according to their "good book".nuff said..respect Ken.
TheFreeman35 10 months ago
watched this years ago on dvd. there is an extra ending where the living conditions of people in the 1960s is filmed.
is it on u tube? some people with small children thought themselves lucky to have a roof over their head-they lived in bombed out houses with no windows or furniture.
other houses were being held up with planks 2stop the roof falling in.
people in tower blocks and council houses are very lucky now.
the taxpayers need to watch how their money is being spent.
Thanks Ken L.
xzsb 10 months ago
Mr Loach - it's an absolute honor to finally be able to see this film. Thank you for making it available like this.
UntouchedTakeaway 10 months ago
Wonderful film. Carol White was an amazing actress.
delicedelmar 10 months ago
Its a shame that this film is still to true today as it was then !
fletch61 11 months ago 3
I think Tories wank off on this, watching poor people suffer gets them wet with excitement.
shahideurope 11 months ago 6
do you no what makes me?sorry to swear,so fucking mad.is that fathers who dont give a dam about there babys. i have 3 daughters. 1 is 24 .1 is 7. and the next 1
is 5.and i have a grand daughter who is 2 and a half.i could not cut off contact with them as i could no more stop breathing. thay are my life.iam 46 years old and my babys will come first.
679hot 11 months ago
Great trailer man!! going to download this in downloadmusic .im
divinagoettel22 11 months ago
you can hear in the actors' voices that they speak proper English, probably well to do .
stafylides 11 months ago
we need someone like ken loach more than ever. you can never win this war, just win a battle every now and then.
Breitheamhnaig 1 year ago
Thank you for sharing these Loach films, they are important social comments on bare life and watching them gives an insight on the harshness of living situations many go through. It should give the more previleged an understanding of difficulties others have to suffer & the politics of providing for all, not just those who control the purse.
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nadisaniamila 1 year ago
@amirtoma Moron.
Don't you know this was a British colony?
I'm not Chinese. And you'd think a pedant with no life would be sure to spell 'thumbs' correctly.
It is entirely fine to break grammar rules. The rules of English are almost entirely arbitrary, given that it is a mongrel tongue, hence its vigour, survival and dominance. They were cobbled together to try and help foreigners learn. Lucky Shakespeare wasn't listening to people like you.
You are a half-wit.
littleniyah 1 year ago
fucking adverts yet a-fucking-gain this is now beyond a joke
vulpecula999 1 year ago
hello dose any no the film ladybird ladybird now this is one of m,y best films i heve ever seen for the time it was mad, it is so strong and shocking i think it the best film he ever mad
jessie31062 1 year ago
back to the future...welcome to britain 2010
britbuster1 1 year ago
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bangalorebully 1 year ago
Come on, come on here to India ...ah ..good ol' ethical,spiritual socialist India....Ken Loach would find it the ideal land.....where the Government is expected to provide home,food and clothing to the "Sweet innocent poor" people ....( You are not sweet and innocent if you work well and are evil enough to be well off and moneyed!!)...but hell, why is every govt program ridden with failure and corruption then??Good luck Europe,u are heading the same way.Let's hope the Americans are wiser!!
bangalorebully 1 year ago
Typical socialist propaganda...by a typical socialist spin doctor "COCK ROACH/Ken Loach"...Whom does these socialist bleeding hearts try to fool?? A "Sweet n innocent " couple decide to have a baby & buy a home (It's NOT their fault that they couldn't pay)..D man loses job due to bad luck (Govt to d rescue?),but hey, even then they produce 2 babies more( it's not a crime to have babies u see...all babies need to live is LOVE)..and it's somebody else's fault!!Another excuse for more GOVERNMENT!
bangalorebully 1 year ago
Fitting that after all attempts were made to change the welfare system and make it better the Tories come along and tell us we are being too nice. Cathy Come Home is about to become a reality once again, all because people don't want to pay slightly higher taxes. Still as long as the wealthy are ok, who cares about the poor eh?
randomsamno9 1 year ago
@randomsamno9
Haha this was the welfare state in its' prime, queues, waiting lists, breaking up families, how social do you think that is, chasing people out of wherever they find to live....?
Iain1962 1 year ago
Get a job, byatch.
megagagnon1 1 year ago
@megagagnon1 Agreed why can't people get on their bike. This country has too many layabouts who wont just leave their kids at home to get a job even when their isn't one. Makes you glad we have a man like Cameron in charge of this country... Oh sorry did I say glad, I meant sick! Being a tory is alright if your rich and don't care about other people, but those of us who are human beings have to suffer all because so many people are so selfish.
randomsamno9 1 year ago
@randomsamno9 End all welfare, it just makes people dependent. Problem solved. Need a hand? Private charities might help.
megagagnon1 1 year ago
"the kids woke me up last night....they were crying, they were hungry" as a father that line haunts me
To watch the poor woman fall apart like that is deeply upsetting, she may be acting but the situation potrayed was all too real.
This play was as heartbreaking as it was important
diegoinhoops 1 year ago
@amirtoma either way, I see this as an interesting conversation (that I originally interrupted), not an attack on whatever you think of history and language! As long as noone gets defensive of course
ofdarknessandlight 1 year ago
@amirtoma Maybe that's why there are so many issues there and not here then? Evolving language doesn't take some fool to try and modernize it as if he knew better. Maybe arabic was one of the most beautiful simple and rich languages 2000 years ago but ours isn't always so beautiful, it has been down right horrid in the past and words come and go as the people see fit. Language isn't some god given tool, it's OUR language as human being to adapt to our changing lives as morality evolves with it
ofdarknessandlight 1 year ago
@amirtoma No, society and language is ever changing, it's odd you use the word broken to seem do disastrous. Change doesn't mean a fracturing...but people are always changing and fighting, that's what makes life interesting and worthwhile. Not that war is worthwhile, that's the underside of the point. That people can discuss it is interesting
ofdarknessandlight 1 year ago
@amirtoma .....but of course it's ok to break the rules of grammar, specially in that it's not supposed to make sense. You're not supposed to read Cathy Come Home and think "ah yes I'm glad they made sense out of that statement, good on them" it's a basic play on words, which fit together and sound snappy. It's a name, why should it read as a plausible sentence? You're either pulling everyone's legs or just completely out of it with your claims of knowledge..
ofdarknessandlight 1 year ago
omg im 51 always heard of this film thought i must have watched it at some time in my life ..how wrong i was .. its horrid isnt it .. familys were like that all around me when i was young but thank god the one time we + 3 kids were made homeless my dad had a 3 bedroom ... hope it doesnt happen again hubby gets made redundant at xmas..but at least my kids are grown
vodachef 1 year ago
Ken Loach is the master of social comment films over many years
cliftonbird 1 year ago
This film shouldn't be censored or blocked. It's the truth how things were. Funny how the truth gets at everyone if it's not to their liking.
ukenutcase 1 year ago
I love the '500 miles' version at the start, who's version is it? It's not the Journeymen.
nagasaki66 1 year ago
they think it's crowded! They should live here in Hong Kong!
littleniyah 1 year ago
@amirtoma Your comments are beyond belief. It is supposed to be an order and it does not require a comma. It is, hello, a film title. Have you never noticed that in film and literature it is ok to break the rules of grammar for dramatic effect? An example might be beginning sentences with conjunctions.
But! You are an obsolete old fool.
Bet you don't get it.
littleniyah 1 year ago 2
@amirtoma for all your supposed degrees, you are not much on spelling.
And a shwa isn't a comma.
littleniyah 1 year ago
As new labour has more or less bankrupt the country we can all look forward to a return to the good old days when the homeless covered the streets. Big thanks to Blair and Brown who using the Robert Mugarbi system of government managed to take a reasonably decent country and turn it into a poverty stricken shit hole.
terrypn 1 year ago
It's all said but once again it shows the importance of not taking on too many financial obligations and having a nest egg to act as a cushion when emergencies come around.
AbuAvital 1 year ago
LIFE SUCKS..... THERE WILL ALWAYS BE SUFFERING IN THE WORLD; IT'S PART OF LIFE. THE GOVERNMENT SUCKS FOR ALL THE REGULATIONS, AND THE COUPLE SUCKS TOO FOR HAVING THESE CHILDREN THEY OBVIOUSLY CAN NOT SUPPORT...THERE IS SHARED RESPONSIBILITY IN THIS MORAL TALE. IT'S JUST THE WAY IT IS AND THERE WILL BE NO HEAVEN OR HELL FOR ANYONE, JUST THE GRIM REALITY OF HUMAN SUFFERING......
bluenitepoet 1 year ago
AN OLD YET STILL POWERFUL PORTRAYEL OF THE 60"s
TheSquawlady 1 year ago
Tragic, so very tragic. I pray we never end up like this again in the Uk. However I dont have much faith in the Condem Gov and anything is possible.
happymonday77 1 year ago
I cant believe her husband left them to fend for themselves!! Poor Cathy she had to go through hell all by herself!!
I hate the fact that the government feels like they are God! Its wrong to take children from a loving mother!! A nd the bas part is when children are really being mistreated they dont do anything at al!!!
terector1 1 year ago 8
@terector1 thanks for the spoiler :(
milquetoasted 5 months ago
@terector1 in many ways this has not changed. on the surface enough has changed to keep you onside, but it wasnt too long before this in history they were shipping all these folk off as criminals to the colonies. right now in UK they are cutting housing benefits, YET making squating illegal! and spoon feeding scare stories about squating. so whats they gonna do with all the folk whose benefits get cut? all our politicians are working for corporates, so they'll just legIislate to suite them
gnowave 3 months ago
@terector1 fyrther more, now that things in UK are the way they are becoming, our politicians and royals are in controversion of the magna carta and constitutional bill of rights (yes, we have them still), these are an agreement between us and the crown and our government that they are we all serve each other. if they dont phold thee rights, it is actually a form of treason. in a sense they are making sure that any choice outwith THEIR choices are made dangerous and legislated against.
gnowave 3 months ago
@terector1 and lastly, now that there are many people getting angry, they bring over foreign labor who are also suffering same socio-political-financial abuse as we, and use them to evict us. very similar to old roman tactic. they know u wont fight or evict your own (without coercsion) so its cheaper to bring in foreign labour to evict you that way, as the foreign labor are also desperate and have to do the job.eg, Poles used to evict gypsies in UK. in US they do it by inventing DRUG LAWS
gnowave 3 months ago
this was a cracking film rember watching it a few years ago and it was really sad and shocking and to think for some this still happens
wolfgoddess48 1 year ago
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@amirtoma What are you talking about? Its 'Cathy Come Home' not 'Comes Home'.
Comes Home doesn't make sense. The title is not describing the journey of a woman home. Its a request from her loved ones for Cathy to return home.
Is English your first language?
plaidzinc 1 year ago
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plaidzinc 1 year ago
This TV film changed my life, I remember watching as a young lad in East London and on winning a literature prize for writing an essay on homelessness sponsored by the new charity Shelter.
This film should be played and played and played to warn the people trapped on benefits to get out before the government controls you.
Burdetski 1 year ago 11
Yes, we are all just specks of dust among the debris of society.
winegoddess55 1 year ago
story of life
monotonelab 1 year ago
How sickening to think that people are still suffering in 2010 + bigots still blaming people for their situation.
Ladylil007 1 year ago
Not much has changed when it comes to the retiring/downsizing, of the "working class" and affordable Housing.
phfrankh 1 year ago
Nothing really changed still people find it hard to get somewhere to live. Men and women only get help if they've come our of prison or out of a mental home or institution. Is it any wonder that young people get pregnant. Single people go into a d group.....basically no chance. a being priority.
kerranky 1 year ago
@kerranky Wrong, there is not help when you come out of prison, hence why re-offending rates are so high.
happymonday77 1 year ago
@happymonday77
And rightfully so. If you hurt or steal from someone, why an Earth should you get help?
mazzaman16 1 year ago
Spare a minute for PEACE please!
DemonstrationNation 1 year ago
@amirtoma So childish for a 50 yr old! all that money spent on education hasn't done you any good has it?
splankhna 1 year ago 2
@amirtoma And I'm quite sure you're none of those things - Mr Malaprop
splankhna 1 year ago
@amirtoma It's laughable when someone so obviously ignorant corrects Ken Loach - incorrectly - not if it's imperative, you clown
splankhna 1 year ago
What an eye-opening film - provokes a lot of thought for how hard things were. Although I live in a nice place and have a good lifestyle, my family were evicted when I was 8 years old and I ended up in temporary housing. Although mine was when it was the 80s, this film still brought back memories. I dread to think what it is like for some people these days - I expect a lot of people face similar struggles, despite a more modern culture!
sebastianhope81 1 year ago
@sebastianhope81 ...you are right in what you say regards people still struggling today..but not to worry folks its going to get even worse for those at the bottom of the ladder thanks to the coalition government...for rest assured there is real poverty to come ...some unfortunates are in for hell!! pity the children...consequent on this, civil unrest is lurking beneath the surface.sad but true..hold tight England for you are in for the ride of your life.
agaichapter25 1 year ago
@amirtoma your an idiot!
clamchenko 1 year ago
we need a version with french subtitle, for other videos too, pleeeeeeaaase
ChipRM35M4419 1 year ago
The homeless are weak sheep.
If they can't afford to keep children don't have children.
If they can't afford it they should not drink or smoke.
Bring back the work houses.
mabon2010 1 year ago
@1977awm
The "baby boomers" are, largely, retired, so I'm not understanding why you're identifying that group as "middle aged" bankers and businessmen. In North America most baby boomers are so limited by their fixed retirement incomes that they are unable to keep the homes that they've spent a lifetime paying the mortgage off on because they can't afford the tax and constantly rising utilities.
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zxc110vbnm 1 year ago
I'd fuck Carol White if she wasn't dead
MrMusclefish 1 year ago
@MrMusclefish How romantic. Would dinner be included beforehand?
dowling1981 1 year ago
@dowling1981 Maybe
MrMusclefish 1 year ago
@MrMusclefish You romantic :) Do you cook?
dowling1981 1 year ago
@dowling1981 Yes, but not so well.
MrMusclefish 1 year ago
@MrMusclefish What doth ye cook?
dowling1981 1 year ago
@MrMusclefish ooh... get Mr Picky.... and i suppose you'd like 'consent' as well wouldn't ya... how gay are You ?
Fuck that dead bitch ! >:(
GoodByeKyle 1 year ago
@GoodByeKyle lol
MrMusclefish 1 year ago
0:39.45 onwards - Leonard Pearce aka Grandad from Only Fools and Horses
TheJohns1984 1 year ago
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TheJohns1984 1 year ago
Cathy come home on you tube
01merson 1 year ago
I would take a little less 'freedom' (aka a little more disciplined life), a lot more regulations on 'smart' businesses that make profits exploiting people (aka the thoughtlessly berated 'socialism') and a little harder life working straining my brains and the back to such carefree, short-sighted life.
While living on a day-to-day basis, without a decent amount set aside for future, the priorities should be set wisely at an individual level (smoking, drinking, children...)
geeta719 1 year ago
She dies
huhjustin 1 year ago
DAMMMNNN 1:16:53 THIS SHIT HAD TO TAKE FOREVER TO UPLOAD SHEEET
ChuBoyCasper 1 year ago
yeah by the time their jugement comes they will be laughing at our misserable lifes...............:)
justalex31 1 year ago
Must be a mistake, this is a normal living day in 2010
ilikebeertoo 1 year ago
i remember this well,none of the impact has been lost in any way
60tat 1 year ago
bravo, mr. Loach, you've created a work of art. Thumbs up if you think that this eye-opening brilliance deserves more views than the uncreative dog shit that if fred
fat8622 1 year ago
This is a warning to people about the plight of the homeless in Britain.This documentary maybe set in the 60's'But could be set in the present time.For God Sake!Wake-Up everyone!...VOTE AGAINST CON/DEM CUTS!!
Jangalene1 1 year ago
Probably one of the greatest British films ever made.
Rhoneyem 1 year ago
God, Grandad's face when he's being told to move into a retirement home, heartbreaking....
mikedc1978 1 year ago
Carol White is the most underrated British actress of her generation. She is magnificent and in my opinion a better actor than Julie Christie of her same generation. Who knows why she never became the big star she richly deserved to be.
IsisTiamat 1 year ago
It won't play!
Lilyloo82 1 year ago
This has got to be one of the most desparate films I have ever seen, and the shocking thing is it is borderline documentary. No wonder middle aged society is in such a mess if their parents wet through, or even saw that grief....
michaelb9360 1 year ago
what is "cathy"?
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nikkifloppy97 1 year ago
I well remember the era of 'Cathy', Often seeing Women with young kids,Destitute on the streets of Manchester,Either through being homeless or having a violent partner,On more than one occasion,My Mother would bring them in for a feed & bed for a day or two ,At the time (not knowing better) I would moan,mainly because it meant me sharing a bed with my brother,However im sure I turned out a more caring person,because of it
Pigeon55 1 year ago 2
"West Germany has built twice as many houses as Britain since the war"
er...yes. But isn't that because twenty times more German homes were destroyed in the war?
ryko26 1 year ago
@ryko26 No, only about three times as many houses were destroyed in Germany.
They never had the post war housing problem Britain had.
Don't forget this progamme was made 20 years after the war & some places were in the same state as when the war ended.
AnElephantsChild 1 year ago
@AnElephantsChild I'd be interested to know where you got those stats from - have you seen footage of London on VE day? Have you seen footage of Berlin (as just one example) on the same day? 16km square of the city was nothing but rubble. Add to that Hamburg, Cologne, Dresden (of course) and plenty of others. Even Coventry doesn't come CLOSE! I'm living in Berlin at the moment and there are huge areas STILL barren, right in the city centre.
ryko26 1 year ago
@AnElephantsChild Thanks for clarifying this issue. A lot of people try to refute that statement at the end of the film about Britain's failure to replenish the housing stock, something which has been made even worse with the sale of council homes and not enough ones being made to replace them.
Even now we're still living in the legacy of this with a housing crisis. By the 90s there was enough homeless to form a shanty town circling London.
JayArgonaut 1 year ago
It's a devastating film; rarely has a television drama character evoked compassion in me to the degree Carol White's Cathy does.
granadagreg 1 year ago
Incidentally Carol White who played Cathy also appeared in a film with Roy Harper called Made - anybody got a copy for upload?? It was "made" around 1972 lol. BTW I was born in 1974, but this era was class, fs the television was more thought provoking that what the likes of X-Factor or BGT will ever be.
Flashboyg 1 year ago
BRILLIANT! I like a few others am still teary eyed over this magnificant film. I still can't believe people were treated like this.
I have lost a lot during this recession including my home but at least there is help. I thank God I'm not there but here, no matter how down I feel I won't ever go through this.
lydiamond12 1 year ago
i have never felt so saddened by this film and how bad things were , i feel very humble, and gratful full all that i have , which isnt much im a single working mum trying to keep decent and law abiding life for me and my daughter,,,, and were does it get you ,,,,, if your a liar cheat and general scum , you get on in life,,,, the goverments are a bunch of wankers and will meet there judgment in hell !
thetreacle1 1 year ago 29
@thetreacle1 - Yip - fair assessment treacle - While Harld Wilson was posing with The Beatles, shit like this was goin on, but Labour won't tell you that - Ken Loach was a genius in his prime - two people I grew up are in his recent film Tickets, but his recent work is nothing like what he done through the 60's and 70's
Flashboyg 1 year ago
@thetreacle1 It is a very thought provoking film. Assuming it's the Labour government, I agree with your last comment.
monsieurtechnical 1 year ago
you have a true heart i see, that IS priceless in my book
bristolian1970 1 year ago
@thetreacle1 I agree'..I was brought up in a Back to Back house in Birmingham in the early 60's.There was a hell of a lot of poverty back then.But'Make no mistake'Officialdom hasn't gone away'The swines have still got their greedy noses' in the trough'..i.e.The Bankers'The govenment'The councils...ect...They come fom a different place'..There is always someone to kick you when your down!..Ihope they rot in hell'Who ever was responsible for all that missery..?
Jangalene1 1 year ago
@thetreacle1 There is no such thing as a hell. So everything is ok. The real wankers are the average law abiding citizen.
wovokanarchy 1 year ago
@thetreacle1
I couldn't agree more we are married however and think the same way. I know someone that walked away from her kids (3) and went off with a former housing consultant leaving her husband in his council flat to raise them on his own.. She now owns (thanks to him) around nine propertys world wide. It turns my stomach. She's nothing but a whore in my books!
gooners105 1 year ago
@1977awm Empathy is never worthless. Most people are aware that at the moment the jobs market is bad also house prices for young people are too high although the interest rate is low if you have saved enough to get a mortgage. Government aren't giving money to bankers and middle aged businessmen they're trying to get the economy moving by supporting businesses. Many bankers getting big bonuses are young and most baby-boomers have no more say in things than anyone else.
barmcakedude 1 year ago
I must say some intelligant comments here and i agree to the one bellow
zada301 1 year ago
@1977awm ....don't agree with the 'arrogantly', 'eating the young', 'punishing'. Sorry if you've had a bad experience. Most older people have a lot more empathy than you think.
barmcakedude 1 year ago
@1977awm. Some young people were laughing while enjoying a drink in a bar the other day while pensioners are living off practically nothing with no chance to turn things round, deteriorating health and loneliness.
barmcakedude 1 year ago
This drama documentary from 1966 is generally recognised as having led to formation of the homeless charity Shelter
ShahOfBlahII 1 year ago
Fosby Their situation wou ld not have been nearly so bad if they had thought about family planning,so much poverty is self made and could be avoided.
fosby 1 year ago
touching drama, amazing documentary that is making a point
compliments to Ken Loach and scriptwriter
BekonTM 1 year ago 2
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cricketbat08 1 year ago
is it a film or real?
PerfectPrincess332 1 year ago
@PerfectPrincess332
The story of Cathy's family is scripted but many of the interviews and voiceovers are from people that Mr. Loach spoke with about the welfare state, although I'm not entirely sure if they are the actual interviews or voice over actors reading the transcripts of the interviews.
lesterclaypool1 1 year ago
omg my mum and aunt where in this
Babyfoxdale 1 year ago
this was uploaded...in1966???
kanga888 1 year ago
Bit hard to type through tears after watching that. Brilliant film. Utterly heartbreaking.
straker2 1 year ago 2
didn't Sidney Newman head then BBC Drama commision this?
MRDOCTORJOHNSMITH 1 year ago
shameful thank god things have changed, british housing & jobs for british people
palmer3977 1 year ago
not really there is still many homeless
dragonfitter 1 year ago
@palmer3977
Come on, homelessness is still a very serious problem. And what's with the jobs line? Even Gordon Brown doesn't use it anymore.
Shrubb1879 1 year ago
@palmer3977 you must be really thick.....jobs and housing.......you should see the world i know, it'll make you change your mind
TheDiamond909 1 year ago
@The Diamond 909 for the past 10 y Ive owned my own house & run my own business, so i suppose these issues haven't touched me that much but no im not thick, these days you will NOT loose your kids if your made homeless. the local council will have to supply you with emergency housing
palmer3977 1 year ago
@palmer3977 - no the issues havent touched you so be thankful, and don't pretend you know anything about them cos you don't. you take one variable (emergency accomadation provision) and use it to calculate that things have got better..... there's so much more to it.... trust me things have got a lot worse.....and yet on the surface of things it doesn't seem so. one must remain positive in life, but never ignore the truth......its a difficult path.
TheDiamond909 1 year ago
@The Diamond 909 the recession has just cost me my business & a few months ago we thought we would loose our home coz we couldn't pay our mortgage & we fell 5 months in arrears, we were both in tears virtually every day for 2 months until we managed to get some not poxy much money of the social to pay our mortgage, the social would not pay coz i ran my own business as a carpentry contractor i only made a poxy wage each wk not a fortune still months in arrears
palmer3977 1 year ago
@The Diamond 909 business gone owe money everywhere but at least our home is safe i wont be voting for these twats oh & guess what the banks have recovered so thats gr8 eh
palmer3977 1 year ago
gosh, poor granddad...
yellowwitch1 1 year ago
Great to see this again, .. the ending scene is heartwrentching.
Film making at it's best.
bonnie43uk 1 year ago 2
@TwinFlameMusic WOT??????
ukmart1 1 year ago
wat
cutecatone 1 year ago
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winstonmatthews 1 year ago
gr8 vid
Monkey10082 1 year ago
Britain then. America now.
Di0genesus 1 year ago
@Di0genesus
Britain still in some places
ukmart1 1 year ago