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January, 1946
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mc-nrn! picture of her mother, which he makes to resemble Merle, helps the child to grow more understanding and is instrumental in reuniting them.
Bruce Manning, John Klorer and Leonard Lee wrote the screen play, Howard Bendict produced it, and William Dieterle directed it. The cast includes Carl Esmond. Jess Barker, Harry Davenport, Helene Thimig, Frank Morgan and others.
Unobjectionable morally.
"THE CORN IS GREENH (Warner Bros., no release date set; time, 114 min.)
An excellent dramatic entertainment, finely produced. It is a good combination of a human interest story and skilful characterizations, with intelligent and sensitive direction. Its appeal, however, will be mainly to high class audiences; as far as the masses are concerned, although there is human interest in the story, it is too wordy, and since there is little action, many patrons may become fidgetv. Moreover, the atmosphere is heavy and there is little comedv relief. Bette Davis does artistic work as the middle-aged London school teacher, who comes to a poor Welsh mining town with a determination to bring the benefits of education to illiterate boys. She is at all times a sympathetic character, because of her self-sacrificing efforts to help the underprivileged. It is a drama of courage and faith, with many situations that will stir the emotions. Although its chief appeal will be to the classes, Bette Davis' popularity, and the fact that the story had been adapted from a famous stage play, should help to draw the rank and file: —
Arriving in the mining town to take up residence in a house she had recently inherited, Miss Davis is appalled by the ignorance and poverty of the inhabitants, who sent their twelve year-old children to work in the mines. Sho launches an educational program to stamp out illiteracy, but her efforts are sabotaged by the local squire (Nigel Bruce), who feared that educated youngsters would be to his economic disadvantage. Undaunted, Miss Davis turns her home into a school and employs, at her own expense, two assistant teachers. When she discovers among her pupils John Dall, a gifted young miner, she determines to make something of him in the hope that he will one day lead his people. In two years, Dall progresses so rapidly that Miss Davis prepares him for an Oxford scholarship. But the boy, rebelling against her constant driv ■fig, gets drunk one evening and has an affair with Joan Lorring, disreputable daughter of Miss Davis' cockney housekeeper. Months later, when Miss Davis learns of Joan's pregnancy, she bribes the girl to keep the news from Dall lest it interfere with his examinations. Dall " ins the scholarship, but, when he learns that Joan had borne his illegitimate son, he insists upon marrying her and returning to the mines. Violently opposed to his giving up his brilliant future to live with Joan, who neither loved Dall nor wanted the child. Miss Davis solves the problem bv adopting the babv. Grateful, Dall goes on to Oxford.
Casey Robinson and Frank Cavett wrote the screen play, Jack Chertok produced it, and Iriving Rapper directed it. The cast includes Rhys Williams, Rosalind Ivan, Mildred Dunnock and others.
Adult entertainment.
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