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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.
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)...
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- Cult Cinema Classics
Original Black & White version: The Proud Valley (1940) https://youtu.be/UyNWpRY5lH8A singing stoker (Paul Robeson) finds work in a Welsh coal mine, where h...
- 77 min
- 17.4K
- Cult Cinema Classics
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.
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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.
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- Ealing Studios, CAPAD
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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 ...
The Proud Valley is a 1940 Ealing Studios film starring the African-American actor Paul Robeson. Filmed on location in the south Wales coalfield, the heart of the main coal mining region of Wales, the film tells the story of a Black American miner and singer who gets a job in a mine and joins a male voice choir.
