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A schoolteacher becomes the mentor of a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.A schoolteacher becomes the mentor of a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.A schoolteacher becomes the mentor of a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 2 nominations total
William Roy
- Idwal Morris
- (as Billy Roy)
Arnet Amos
- Miner
- (uncredited)
- …
Carol Ann Beekly
- Schoolgirl
- (uncredited)
Edmund Breon
- Bit Part
- (uncredited)
Arthur Carrington
- Infant
- (uncredited)
Ralph Cathey
- Eddie
- (uncredited)
Michael Chapin
- Schoolboy
- (uncredited)
Robert Cherry
- Dai Evans
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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- TriviaThe play and the film tell the true story of playwright Emlyn Williams and his schoolmistress Miss Cooke.
- GoofsDespite the villagers being illiterate, every time a poster is put up people gather round to read it. They also have no problem signing their names in the register.
- Quotes
Miss Lilly Moffat: I have never spoken to a man for more than five minutes in my life without wanting to box his ears.
- SoundtracksAll Through the Night
(uncredited)
Traditional Welsh lullaby
Featured review
**** Lush drama
This fully vibrant adaptation of Emlyn Williams' successful stage play is at its best in its first half-watching Bette Davis sweep into a tiny town in the Welsh countryside and take over with her new world ideas makes you so grateful to see such a strong female character in such an old film (truth be told, seeing a strong woman was highly more likely in a wartime film in the forties, as opposed to the post-war-prosperity fifties when women were either Sandra Dee or Donna Reed). John Dall stars as the miner who turns out to be quite gifted in scholastic abilities, whom Davis pushes to reach for the stars academically. The second half of the film, which concerns itself with Dall's trying for Oxford and dealing with a few domestic' problems, isn't as invigorating as the first, but on the whole it's a beautiful experience of a film, and one of the few Hollywood films of its time to accurately (if broadly) show a foreign culture and its common people. Remade with less success as a telefilm in 1979 with Katharine Hepburn and directed by George Cukor.
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- Also known as
- Kukuruz je zelen
- Filming locations
- Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA(studio: sound stage 7)
- Production company
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- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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