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The Proud Valley (Blu-ray)

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SKU
5055201836595
Alphabetical Title:
Proud Valley, The
Blu-Ray Region:
B
Brand / Publisher:
StudioCanal
Catalogue Number:
OPTBD4008
Certificate:
PG
Colour:
Black & White
Countries:
United Kingdom
Director:
Pen Tennyson
Format:
Blu-ray
Language(s):
English
Product contents:
1 disc
Running time:
76 min
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
Year:
1940

Description

Part of the Vintage Classics collection

 

Set in the Welsh mining valleys this popular social drama from Ealing Studios is an authentic portrayal of working-class life and society struggles which rung true with Paul Robeson (Showboat), a political activist in his own right, and is the second of just three films ever made by the young director Penrose Tennyson (There Ain’t No Justice, Convoy).

David Goliath (Robeson), a charismatic African-American stoker, washes up in a small Welsh village where he finds work alongside the miners down the pit. A competent singer, Goliath’s roaring voice soon draws the attention of the local choir master Dick Parry (Simon Lack: The Silver Darlings, Enemy at the Door) and his son Emlyn (Edward Chapman: Convoy, It Always Rains on Sunday), who have ambitions of winning the national choir contest. Following a deadly explosion, the pits are closed, leaving the villagers out of work and struggling to make ends meet. Wanting to help the community that welcomed him so generously, David rouses a group of activists to march to London in the hope of reopening the mine in time to serve the nation at the outbreak of war.

The Proud Valley was Robeson’s final British feature and the one film that in his own words, he was “proud of having played in”.

 

Product details

SKU 5055201836595
Alphabetical Title Proud Valley, The
Blu-Ray Region B
Brand / Publisher StudioCanal
Catalogue Number OPTBD4008
Certificate PG
Colour Black & White
Countries United Kingdom
Director Pen Tennyson
Format Blu-ray
Language(s) English
Product contents 1 disc
Running time 76 min
Subtitles English Hard of Hearing
Year 1940

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