He was brilliant at invective, and making general statements about the need to communicate a politically responsible set of values, but neither he nor any of his friends were screenwriters, nor were they motivated to work with writers on ideas that were their own. 
Despite their rousing calls for a cinema that was `vital, illuminating," and their polemic against a national cinema divorced from contemporary realities, they turned to a series of novels set in the English provinces for material out or which to make their first movies. 
Nor did this brief fashion for working-class subjects <tag "515648">derive</> directly from their critical campaigns, except insofar as Richardson had directed Look Back in Anger on the stage in 1956, and that production marked the cultural watershed from which a fashion for `realism" seemed to flow. 

