Overview
1940s British realist film about the life and struggles of a family in a Welsh mining town.
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Setting
Set in Wales
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Music
Music by Grace Williams
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Jill CraigieWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 9, 1949
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
Production
Cast
Emrys JonesTom Thomas- Gwynneth VaughanOlwen Williams
Rachel ThomasGwyneth Williams- Anthony PendrellAlfred Collins
- Prysor WilliamsTed Williams
- Ernest BerkLeon Kavichinoff
- Pauline BentleyPhyllis
- Dan BevanDoctor
- Phil BurtonMr Llewellyn
- Madoline ThomasGranny
- Francis LuntMr Sharp
- Dilys JonesGlenis Thomas-Evans
Kenneth GriffithThomas Williams- David KeirWalter
- Winston EdwardsOwen Williams
- Patsy DrakePeggy
- Michael StankiewiczPolish Miner
Prudence HymanMoira Thalberg- Anthony VerneyMack
- Pearl EvansVeronica
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