Smashing Kids (1975)

ALL 08/14/1975 (en) Documentary 26 Min
  • Release
    08/14/1975
  • Production
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  • Original title
    Smashing Kids
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
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Overview

Children growing up in poverty is the subject of Smashing Kids, 1975. John Pilger meets the Hopwoods, of Liverpool, where hunger has become a way of life during father Harry’s unemployment as his family of five survive on £1 a day. The wallpaper in their council house is torn and there are no clothes in the couple’s wardrobe and no sheets on their bed. The family have never had a holiday and Harry tells Pilger: “It would be easier to serve time than to put up with this.”

  1. John Ingram

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. John Ingram

    Producer



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Smashing Kids (1975) 26 Min

ALL 08/14/1975 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 08/14/1975
  • Production
  • Original title Smashing Kids
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Children growing up in poverty is the subject of Smashing Kids, 1975. John Pilger meets the Hopwoods, of Liverpool, where hunger has become a way of life during father Harry’s unemployment as his family of five survive on £1 a day. The wallpaper in their council house is torn and there are no clothes in the couple’s wardrobe and no sheets on their bed. The family have never had a holiday and Harry tells Pilger: “It would be easier to serve time than to put up with this.”

  1. John Ingram

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. John Ingram

    Producer