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The Proud Valley is a 1940 Ealing Studios film starring Paul Robeson. Filmed in the South Wales coalfield, the principal Welsh coal mining area, the film is about a seaman who joins a mining community. It includes their passion for singing as well as the dangers and precariousness of working in a mine.
In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens. Original title: The Proud Valley (1940)...
As David Goliath, in the popular British drama The Proud Valley, Robeson is the quintessential everyman, an American sailor who joins rank-and-file Welsh miners organizing against the powers that be. By the start of World War II, Paul Robeson had given up his lucrative mainstream work to participate in more socially progressive film and stage ...
The Tunnel: Directed by Pen Tennyson. With Paul Robeson, Edward Chapman, Simon Lack, Rachel Thomas. In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
Feb 12, 2013 · Phil Morris revisits Pen Tennyson's The Proud Valley, the 1940 Ealing Studios film starring cultural icon and political activist Paul Robeson. October 1957. A long-distance phone call links the Welsh seaside town of Porthcawl - where the South Wales miners have gathered for their annual Eisteddfod - to an undisclosed recording studio in New York,
Paul Robeson inspires racial unity and pit solidarity in a Welsh mining community just before the second world war. Filmed in the early days of the war, The Proud Valley comes across as rather naive in the hands of writer/director Pen Tennyson, despite the relatively high production standards.
