The Gorbals Story is a 1950 British second feature ('B')[1] film directed by David MacKane and starring Howard Connell, Marjorie Thomson and Betty Henderson.

"[3] Kine Weekly wrote: "Searing yet thoughtful and, strangely enough, intensely human regional melodrama, actually set in the squalid Gorbals district of Glasgow.

...Russell Hunter turns in a skillfully graded study as Johnnie, Betty Henderson makes a likeable and understanding Peggy, and Howard Connell is responsible for a perfect cameo as the easy-going, hard-drinking Wullie.

"[5] The reviewer for Picturegoer wrote: "While applauding the earnest initiative which brought it into being, I can't help feeling that too many opportunities are missed and that the overall treatment is very amateurish.

...It could have been a tremendously moving human essay, but it rarely rises above an emotional staginess, while its theatrical origin is clearly evident, particularly in the work of the players, who, though individually good, need far more skilful direction in the art of screen acting.