Flame in the streets in the streets

Domestic difficulties develop in a working-class family when their daughter falls in love with a Jamaican. Made in the wake of the 1959 Notting Hill riots, Flame in the Streets (d. Roy Ward Baker, 1961), is a tense examination of racial prejudice. Adapted by Ted Willis from his own stage play Hot Summer Night, it had already been produced for television (ITV, tx. 1/2/1959) for ...