The Big Flame

1969 · 85 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 80 VOTES · DIR. Ken Loach

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Overview

After a prolonged industrial dispute in the Liverpool Docks, the striking workers reject management demands of a return to work and decide instead to occupy the docks and run the operation themselves.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,719 lines

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00:00:52 LOGAN: Here. Just through here.
00:03:54 Now, let me underline this. Let there be no illusions.
00:07:07 because it contains clauses and provisions
00:10:22 and to employ men only when it suits their needs.
00:13:42 LOGAN: (LAUGHING) Come off it, Danny Boy. Be practical.
00:16:40 -Freddie, I want to ask you a question. -All right, what is it?
00:19:25 There are no changes in your circumstances.
00:22:48 and a wildcat strike.
00:26:01 -MAN: We're gonna be out of work anyway. -In the long run.
00:29:18 "until the men have returned to work."
00:32:20 Aye. Return to work pending negotiations.
00:35:36 They make decisions that effect communities
00:38:45 Spent most of his time getting down on the rum ration and the gin.
00:41:58 We intend to take the bull by the horns and decasualise the employers.
00:46:26 It's a simple process made complicated, by duplication.
00:50:07 Regan is an ex-member of the Communist Party
00:54:28 You're wasting your time on him, mate.
00:57:15 ALEC: Come on.
01:00:22 Not bothered about that.
01:03:33 Dead easy. All you do is you get a boat and you drift down with the tide.
01:06:57 And just before they hung him, he got a message out to a mate.
01:10:59 There's enough men here to arrest every one of you.
01:15:56 and preach revolution in Havana and stay silent in their own backyard.
01:19:40 Get them out.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,719
Dialogue density20.2 lines / min
First line00:00:52
Final line01:19:40

Production Record

DirectorKen Loach
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes80