Poster of The Dead End Lads

The Dead End Lads

Plot: Youth unemployment is a perennial problem, but this ATV film from 1972 documents a particularly challenging period for a troubled community. Exploring the efforts of central Liverpool’s Bronte Youth Centre, it follows a group of Merseyside school-leavers as they face up to inescapable fate on the dole, trying to fill their time playing table tennis and football
Release Date: Saturday, January 1 1971
52 years ago
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Portrait of John GoldschmidtJohn Goldschmidt
John Goldschmidt was
28 in The Dead End Lads
as 'Director'
Sun, Aug 01 1943