The Proud Valley

Film Info

United Kingdom
1940
76 minutes
Black and White
1.33:1
English
Spine #373

By the start of World War II, Paul Robeson had given up his lucrative mainstream work to participate in more socially progressive film and stage productions. As David Goliath, in the popular British drama The Proud Valley, Robeson is the quintessential everyman, an American sailor who joins rank-and-file Welsh miners organizing against the powers that be.

Cast

David Goliath	Paul Robeson
Dick Parry	Edward Chapman
Evelyn Parry	Simon Lack
Mrs. Parry	Rachel Thomas
Dilys	Dilys Thomas
Bert	Edward Rigby
Gwen Owen	Janet Johnson
Evans	Charles Williams
Thomas	Jack Jones

Credits

Director	Pen Tennyson
Producer	Michael Balcon
Musical arrangement	Ernest Irving
Based on the story by	Herbert Marshall and Alfredda Brilliant
Screenplay	Pen Tennyson, Jack Jones and Louis Golding
Associate producer	Sergei Nolbandov
Cinematography	Glen MacWilliams and Roy Kellino
Art director	Wilfrid Shingleton
Editing	Ray Pitt

Disc Features

FEATURED ON THE DISC PAUL ROBESON: CITIZEN OF THE WORLD WITH THE FEATURE NATIVE LAND

New, digital transfers of The Proud Valley and Native Land created from the best surviving elements
“The Story of Native Land,” a new video interview with cinematographer Tom Hurwitz, son of Frontier Films cofounder and Native Land codirector Leo Hurwitz
1958 Pacifica Radio interview with Paul Robeson (Courtesy of Pacifica Radio Archives)
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing