- BFI identifier24075
- Date1949 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisWelsh coal-mining drama. Olwen Williams leaves her drab Welsh village and sweetheart to take up a singing scholarship, and eventually marries a collar-and-tie man. Tom has ambitions of his own and becomes manager of the colliery. (Synopsis)
- Work historyActress Madoline Thomas is billed as 'Madeline Thomas' on the front credits but spelled correctly in the end cast list. Title card: 'A story that might have happened anywhere in South Wales'
- Genre
- CategoryFiction
- Subject
- Credits
- CastEmrys Jones (Tom Thomas)
Gwyneth Vaughan (Olwen Williams)
Rachael Thomas (Gwenneth 'Gwen' Williams)
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Title
Blue Scar (Original)
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available to view in BFI Reuben Library - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Script type: Release script - SCR-4508
Ephemera: publicity - PBM-24075
Medium pressbook held.
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