FROM THE PEN OF "THE CITADEL'S" BOLD AUTHOR!
Director: Carol Reed
Producer: Isadore Goldsmith
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
110 min
Rating: 6.5/10
Released
Top Cast
Michael Redgrave
Davey Fenwick
Margaret Lockwood
Jenny Sunley
Emlyn Williams
Joe Gowlan
Nancy Price
Martha Fenwick - Davey's mother
Allan Jeayes
Richard Barras - the mine owner
Edward Rigby
Robert Fenwick - Davey's father
Movie Info
Director: Carol Reed
Producer: Isadore Goldsmith
Production Companies: Grafton Films
Countries: United Kingdom
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Michael Redgrave is the local boy done good, when he wins a scholarship to go to university to train to be a teacher. Unfortunately, he has fallen in love with the rather fickle "Jenny" (Margaret Lockwood) who has a bit of a venal streak. Curtailing his studies, he returns to live with her in his boyhood town intent on improving the lot of his community - but he is soon disillusioned when he sees his wife still keen on her flashy old flame "Joe" (Emlyn Williams) and that his elderly father looks set to have to work the mines for years to come... He accidentally discovers that the mine is unsafe, and determines to bring this to the attention of the council to avert disaster, but will they listen? Carol Reed allows this story plenty of room to breathe. Though not complex, we can see the characterisations develop as the story seems to head, unstoppably, towards disaster in quite a compelling fashion. Redgrave, Williams and Allan Jeayes as mine owner "Barras" work well to create a solid, if a bit dryly told, story of greed and exploitation with some superbly claustrophobic mining photography to add authenticity.