Film Adaptation
Although the book and play were successful, the British Board of Film Censors would not allow a film to be made during the 1930s: it was a "very sordid story in very sordid surroundings", and in Gow's words "regarded as 'dangerous'".
It was eventually filmed and released in 1941 by British National Films with Deborah Kerr as Sally. But by then social conditions were being radically changed by the Second World War.
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