Blue Scar (1949)

Directed by

Jill Craigie

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

U

Rating

8.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A miner's daughter moves away to London while her love stays behind to work in a recently nationalized Welsh coal mine. The story examines how their different choices pull them apart.

groundedsocially consciousbittersweetintimatedeliberateearthynostalgic

What happens

Blue Scar is a 1949 British drama film directed by documentary filmmaker Jill Craigie and starring Emrys Jones and Gwyneth Vaughn. Set in a Welsh village where the mine has recently been nationalised, it focuses on the relationship between Olwen Williams, a miner's daughter who leaves the village to live in London, and Tom Thomas, who dedicates his life to working in the mine. With Craigie's background in documentary films with a social message, Blue Scar was designed to raise questions about the value of nationalising the coal industry. It was the only non-documentary film Craigie directed. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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