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| | screenonline: Blue Scar (1949) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15) |
 | | Miner's daughter Olwen Williams leaves her small Welsh village and her sweetheart, Tom, 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. |
 | | The south Wales interiors are generally more impressive than might be expected, with the crew using a Port Talbot cinema, rented for £1 a day, as a makeshift studio. |
 | | Here, nationalisation is not seen as an instant industry saviour: indeed it leads to longer working hours in the short run, during a coal crisis. |
| www.screenonline.org.uk /film/id/582095 (416 words) |
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