Hello Pat,
My advice is that you should watch the movie for Bette Davis's brilliant performance
as the schoolteacher. It is a good Hollywood movie based on a quite good novel, with its
heart in the right place, set in an unconvincing Welsh village of a century or so ago You
will learn very little about family and local history but a lot about one fictional
woman's passionate conviction that the highest forms of higher education are the right
of everyone capable of achieving them, even at the expense of class loyalties. Should the
boy she is teaching go on to Oxford or should he stay with his peers and spend his life
down the mine? As they say on your side of the water, enjoy!
I shall be in trouble with the Gwynneth moderator if I go on.
Jim Norris
On Fri, 31 August 2001, MSmith3030(a)aol.com wrote:
Hello List members,
I hope I'm not too out of line here with my question! I noticed that in my
T.V. listing there is a movie on this Saturday evening on PBS called " The
Corn Is Green" 1945 with Betty Davis. It says it is about a mining town in
Wales. Can any of you out there tell me if it's worth watching? Is there
any truth to it? What about the scenery and locations?
I got myself in to a bit of trouble the last time I asked about "How Green
Is My Valley", which is one of my favorites. So please, no fighting over
this movie. I just want to know if I should watch it, being from the States
and all!
TIA and be nice!!!!
Pat Jones Smith
St. Louis, Missouri - USA
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