 Jim Allen (born in Manchester on 7 October 1926) was a left-wing television and screenwriter of scenes from working-class life, often associated with the realist films of Ken Loach. A former miner and building worker, he began his career as a writer for Coronation Street (ITV, 1960-) and other TV work includes Loach's famed Days of Hope (BBC, 1975), described by one chronicler as a "Leftist mini-epic about Britain between 1916-26". He brought a passionately uncompromising approach to all his work, as his three cinema films for Loach
attest, his sympathies directed to the underdogs, his anger at their exploiters.
The beleaguered father (Ricky Tomlinson) in Raining Stones (d. Loach, 1993) is a typically sympathetic but rigorous character creation. Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film
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