Socially committed, he views this, not so much as a way out of the mine, but more the chance to fight for and improve the lot of the Sleescale people on another front. Michael Redgrave stars as Davey Fenwick, a miner's son whose academic ability wins him a scholarship. With this in mind, Carol Reed's 1939 drama of life in a northern English mining town stands as a remarkable success that it even got made seems a triumph, given the censorship rules then extant. Do you really want to alienate your majority audience, who look to the cinema for escape, in order to appeal to minorities with a compassionate, or voyeuristic, interest in seeing how the other half dies?Īll told, it's no surprise that most filmmakers shy away from working class subjects, nor that, when they don't, the results are often hesitant and unsatifactory. Then, more often than not, it's bad box office. Regardless of their commitments, intentions and class background, flak will soon come from both left and right, accusing then of propaganda and misrepresentation, respectively. It has always been a challenge for filmmakers to represent working class life.
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