The Great Ealing Film Challenge 60: The Proud Valley (1940)
Dr Keith M. Johnston
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Posted 12.06.2012
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UK Entertainment
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The Proud Valley seems to be a film that is required to stand for a lot of different opinions, historical developments, and ideologies: perhaps understandably, given this is an Ealing film with black American actor Paul Robeson in the lead role, about a mining village's attempt to self-govern their own mine, a plan which (both in terms of the film's fiction and the film's production) changes due to the advent of the Second World War.
