The Corn is Green was originally conceived as a 1938 play by Welsh dramatist/actor Emlyn Williams. It's a semi-autobiographical story of a coal miner who shows poetic writing talent, and the local teacher who spots that talent and gives him the education he needs to make it into Oxford University.
There have been two movie adaptions of the play — the most famous in 1945 starring Bette Davis, and my favorite, the 1979 made-for-TV rendering that starred Katharine Hepburn.
On this week's Flicks in Five, we'll hear some of John Barry's score for the 1979 reworking of The Corn is Green.
Original Trailer — The Corn is Green (1945)
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