ThiefHott Too much of everything

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

colinedwards-24845 I hardly know where to start - so perhaps with the name of the town GLANSARNO. Since it is supposed to be set in the remote countryside of Wales, perhaps PONTSARNO or LLANSARNO or even TRESARNO would make it more believable. The FAQ asks what is the meaning of the name and DOESN'T EVEN ANSWER IT!! Most mining towns were NOT remote, and in 1895 were connected by railways. Oh dear, and what choices for the songs the miners sang travelling from work - hard songs even for the many excellent Welsh choirs and then near the end what an insult to have the pupils since one of the most well-known and famous Welsh songs 'Ar Hyd Y Nos' (All Through the Night') in ENGLISH!!! Most English speakers have trouble with Welsh and so to have a crafty illiterate Bessie Watty sing a beautiful song in perfect Welsh to the apple of her lusty eyes is also so unbelievable. Can't believe that to advertise the school to a town of illiterate and predominately Welsh-speaking townsfolk, Miss Moffat decides to use posters!!! That would not work and again - the poster of course is in English. Add to that, the English were distrusted and she would have needed to work hard very hard to gain acceptance. I can't believe there was anyone connected with the film who knew ANYTHING of Welsh country life and although many small independent 'schools' existed, every mining town had a State School by 1895 - they were not 'remote'. The stand-out character was John Dall and the only other believable characters were Rhys Williams (Mr Jones), Mildred Dunnock (Miss Ronberry) and Rosalind Ivan (Mrs Watty). Bette Davis depicted a strong character but one without empathy, love and conviction so necessary for her role as an educator. The imperious, isolated and punishing character she portrayed would not have gone well with the villagers or the potential students. A mine-owner (50% share) squire would have been feared rather than loved and although I like the bumbling Nigel Bruce I thought him poorly cast. When one sees a 'true' mining town so excellently depicted in 'How Green Was My Valley' it is truly the apogee when compared this film - the nadir in so many respects.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . to an alleged Oscar "Best Picture" foisted off upon the World by Fake Movie News Pioneer Darryl F. Zanuck of 20th Century Fox. Zanuck had commissioned future Real Life Witch Hunter director John Ford to romanticize the Deplorable Lot of Welsh coal miners and to glorify Big Coal (which was and is, Then, Now, and Always, the world's most unnecessarily dangerous and poorly Unionized Worker Exploitation Racket among the many scams run by Labor-killing Corrupt "Conservative" Capitalism). After rigging an election to bestow Tinseltown's highly-coveted Gelded Statuette upon the mawkish HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY, Zanuck and Fox insured a minimum of 100,000 MORE Coal Miner Murders World-Wide, according to a recent Socioeconomic Report. Zanuck smugly thought that HIS would be Cinema's Last Word about Coal. However, it did not take long for Warner Bros. to courageously cast its most famous Progressive Party Activist--Bette Davis--as a Hellcat Heroine fighting against the Coal Killer Realities glossed over by Ford's Fakey Fairy Tale. Davis' character in THE CORN IS GREEN, Miss Moffatt, is NOT content to sit on her Welsh Tuffet, frittering her curds a whey. Instead, she charges into the Coal Pit, dragging out miner Morgan Evans kicking and screaming until she's smoothed away the rough edges of his 40-carat diamond mind. "Make the light come into the dingy, black-dust tunnels, and some day save the children!" Moffatt orders Morgan as she sends him off to Crusade against Big Coal Flaks like Zanuck and Ford.

SnoopyStyle It's 1895 in the small remote Welsh village of Glansarno. Schoolteacher Lilly Moffat (Bette Davis) is left a building by her uncle. Everybody expected a man and is surprised especially her degree in Master of Arts. She is dismayed by the illiterate children working in the coal mines and she sets up a school for them. Safe Mr. Jones and spinster Miss Ronberry are enlisted to help. Her housekeeper Mrs. Watty tries to be helpful but her daughter Bessie (Joan Lorring) is quite a gossiping schemer. The Squire who owns most of the town including a half-share of the mine opposes Moffat's school. She takes an interest in promising student Morgan Evans (John Dall) who she hopes to go to Oxford University.This is a simple traditional proper principled woman coming to rescue poor disadvantaged kids. The 'kids' could look a bit younger. John Dall is pass his mid-20s. Although both him and Joan Lorring did get Oscar nominations for their performance. This is workable formulaic film.

blanche-2 Bette Davis stars in "The Corn is a Green," a 1945 film from Warner Brothers, also starring John Dall, Nigel Bruce, Mildred Dunnock, and Joan Lorring.Davis plays Miss Moffat, a spinster who has inherited some money and a house and moves to a Welsh mining town as a result. Upset by the fact that the people of the town have no education to speak of, and that the children are working in the mines, she decides to start a school. She runs into lots of resistance from the town, including the squire of the town (Nigel Bruce) who won't even rent her a space. So she starts the school in her own house.One young man, Morgan Evans (John Dall) stands out as having great potential, and Miss Moffat gives him private tutoring, hoping that he can win a scholarship to Oxford.Wonderful film directed by Irving Rapper, based on the play by Emlyn Williams, "The Corn is Green" has a marvelous performance by Bette Davis, a very controlled one, proving again she is one of the great stars of the golden era.Every time I see John Dall in a movie, I end up looking the film up on IMDb to see who the actor was. I don't know why it is that I can never recognize him. He gives an excellent performance, and I agree with others on the site, it's a shame that he didn't reach stardom. He perhaps had too much of an edge to be a true leading man, plus "Rope" - with a major role for him -- flopped.The rest of the cast is uniformly good, including Joan Lorring as the tart daughter of the housekeeper, Nigel Bruce as the Squire, and Rhys Williams as Mr. Jones, the parson."The Corn is Green" was turned into the musical "Miss Moffat" in the '60s or early '70s and starred Bette Davis. The whole experience with Davis was a complete disaster and is well chronicled in Josh Logan's book "Movie Stars, Real People, and Me." Also, the composer, Albert Hague, had quite a bit to say about her when I was involved in New York City's musical circles - as did others. The show never made it to Broadway, but it was done again starring Ginger Rogers.Highly recommended.