Utterley Utterley Utterley is the name of the small fictional town in Lancashire, England that was the main setting for the 1980s and 1990s Granada TV series "Brass". Utterley was portrayed as a typical Lancastrian mining and mill town in the 1930s. The town was controlled by Bradley Hardacre who had risen from a childhood spent in the town's workhouse (which later became the Cottage Hospital) to owning through his company Hardacre International most of the town's industry (mine, mill, munitions factory, shipyard, crutch factory and aircraft factory) and also it would appear all or at least most of the property
The Talk of the Town (1942 film) or melodramatic to the slap-happy and humorous sometimes is a bit awkward, but in the main it is solid escapist comedy." Screenwriter Sidney Buchman (who co-wrote the script with Irwin Shaw) was blacklisted in the 1950s. Consequently, Buchman, one of the men who penned Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), left the U.S. and began working in Fox's European division. Buchman would remain in France until his death in 1975. Notes Bibliography The Talk of the Town (1942 film) The Talk of the Town is a 1942 American comedy/drama film directed by George Stevens and starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur,