Cast
Michael Redgrave (Davey Fenwick)Margaret Lockwood (Jenny Sunley)Edward Rigby (Robert Fenwick)Emlyn Williams (Joe Gowlan)Nancy Price (Martha Fenwick)Allan Jeayes (Richard Barras)Linden Travers (Mrs. Laura Millington)Cecil Parker (Stanley Millington)Milton Rosmer (Harry Nugent, MP)George Carney (Slogger Gowlan)Ivor Barnard (Wept)Olga Lindo (Mrs. Sunley)Desmond Tester (Hughie Fenwick)David Markham (Arthur Barras)Aubrey Mallalieu (Hudspeth)Kynaston Reeves (Strother)Clive Baxter (Pat Reedy)James Harcourt (Will)
Director
Carol Reed
Synopsis
Davey Fenwick (Sir Michael Redgrave) leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny (Margaret Lockwood) who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree. Davey finds he is ill-at-ease in his role, the more so when he realizes Jenny still loves her former boyfriend. When he finds that his father and the other miners are going to have to continue working on a possibly deadly coal seam he decides to act.
