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On Strike

1957 · 87 min

A sober, talky labour drama that simmers with grievance and quiet scheming, feeling earnest and a little stagey.

Overview
Workers at an Eveready battery factory are disgruntled because their wages are low compared to a neighbouring factory. The factory manager exploits the workers’ rising discontent by colluding with a traitor within the workers’ ranks to instigate a strike in the factory, part of a devious ploy to take over the factory from the benevolent but incapacitated factory owner/boss. The colluders create dismal working conditions and make use of every opportunity and incident to raise the call for a strike, to sour industrial relations in a bid to close the factory down so that they can coerce the boss to hand over ownership.

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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • class
  • corruption
  • betrayal
  • power
  • justice
Places
  • workplace
  • big city
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour2
Realism8
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
K. M. Basker
Written by
Dato' Haji Jamil Sulong
Starring
Ahmad Mahmud, Saadiah, S. Kadarisman, Daeng Idris
Runtime
87 min
Country
Singapore
Languages
Malay

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