Poor Cow

“When two arms close around her...She knows she's home. Two arms will do. Any two arms will do.”

Joy (Carol White) marries young and has a baby with a thief, and when he is sent to prison she is left to manage alone. She takes up with his mate Dave Fuller (Terence Stamp), another thief, and for a while he gives her a little real happiness. Ken Loach, making his first feature after years in television, films it plainly and lets the cast play it as naturally as they would live it.