Up the Junction

Up the Junction

Don't get caught was what she wasn't taught.

R 1968 · 119 min · ★ 6.2 · Drama

A young woman trades her upper-class existence for a new life in an economically depressed suburb of London.

Directed by Peter Collinson · Written by Roger Smith

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