The Corn Is Green

The Corn Is Green

Director: Irving Rapper Cast: Max Steiner
Max Steiner
, Bette Davis
Bette Davis
, John Dall
John Dall
, Joan Lorring
Joan Lorring
Irving Rapper
The Corn Is Green

The Corn Is Green

Director: Irving Rapper Cast: Max Steiner
Max Steiner
, Bette Davis
Bette Davis
, John Dall
John Dall
, Joan Lorring
Joan Lorring
Irving Rapper

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Overview

In this 1945 filmization of Emlyn Williams' semi-autobiographical 1938 play The Corn is Green, Bette Davis steps into the role originated on Broadway by Ethel Barrymore. Davis plays Miss Moffat, a turn-of-the-century schoolteacher in a Welsh mining town. She has opened her own school in hopes of lowering the town's illiteracy rate, thus enabling the younger residents to seek out more fulfilling lives than merely sweating away in the mines until they drop. She runs into a great deal of resistance from mine-owner Nigel Bruce, who realizes that as soon as the citizens can read and write, they'll rebel against his benevolent despotry. Even Miss Moffat concludes that her mission is hopeless until she is visited by young miner John Dall, who wants to know "what is behind all those books." Within two years, Dall has made so much progress that he has qualified for Oxford. A last-minute snag involving Dall's illegitimate child is solved when Miss Moffet herself agrees to adopt the baby so that her student can complete his education. Emlyn Williams himself came from a backward mining town, and was himself inspired to better things by a compassionate schoolteacher; the pregnancy angle was (probably) added to provide the story with a third act. The Corn is Green was remade for television in 1978, with Katharine Hepburn as Miss Moffat. Watch for one amusing gaffe in the original: despite carefully setting up the premise that the villagers are illiterate, they are shown hovering around a poster and reading it out loud in an early scene.

Product Details

Release Date: 09/25/2012
UPC: 0883316616956
Original Release: 1945
Source: Warner Archives
Region Code: A
Sound: [monaural]
Language: English
Time: 1:54:00
Sales rank: 3,300

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Bette Davis Miss Lilly Moffat
John Dall Morgan Evans
Joan Lorring Bessie Watty
Nigel Bruce The Squire
Rhys Williams Mr. Jones,Wylodine
Rosalind Ivan Mrs. Watty
Mildred Dunnock Miss Ronberry
Gwyneth Hughes Sarah Pugh,Miners in Bar
Billy Roy Idwal Monris
Thomas Louden Old Tom
Arthur Shields William Davis
Leslie Vincent John Owen
Robert Regent Rhys Norman
Tony Ellis Will Hughes
Elliott Dare Glyn Thomas
Robert Cherry Dai Evans
Gene Ross Gwilym Jones
George Mathews Trap Driver
Brandon Hurst Lewellyn Powell
David Hilary Hughes Actor
Herbert Evans Miners in Bar,Miners in Bar
Adeline Reynolds Old Woman Reading
John Dehner Welshman
Robert Cory Miners in Bar
Sarah Edwards Mrs. Watty's Friend
Margaret Hoffman Militant Corps woman
Stub Mussellman Bit
Bert Speiser Bit
Leonard Mudie Station Master
Edmund Breon Actor

Technical Credits
Irving Rapper Director
Frank Cavett Screenwriter
Casey Robinson Screenwriter
Jack Chertok Producer
Robert B. Lee Sound/Sound Designer
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