The Angry Silence is a 1960 black-and-white British drama film directed by Guy Green and starring Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig and Bernard Lee.

Those who continue to work find that their properties are subject to repeated attacks, including bricks through windows and arson, and join the strike out of fear.

Management fears that continued publicity will mean the loss of a major contract, while some workers take matters into their own hands.

Too much ambition, perhaps: the film has several themes – mob law, TUC weakness, bad industrial relations, the right to dissent – whose admixture and thorough working out, possible in a novel, are less ideally suited to the cinema.

Screenwriter Bryan Forbes explores a range of political issues, but the practised rhetoric sounds false in the mouths of the rank and file, and the best moments are not the confrontations between strikebreaker Richard Attenborough and his workmates, but those depicting the pressures on his marriage.

Attenborough gives a sterling performance, but the acting honours go to Pier Angeli as his distraught wife and Alfred Burke as the devious agent provocateur.

"[12] Leslie Halliwell said: "Irresistibly reminding one of a po-faced I'm Alright Jack, this remains a fresh and urgent film which unfortunately lost excitement in its domestic scenes.