Blue Scar

Blue Scar is a 1949 British drama film, directed by documentary filmmaker Jill Craigie, set in a Welsh village where the mine has recently been nationalised. It focuses on the relationship between Olwen Williams, a miners daughter who leaves the village to live in London, and Tom Thomas, who dedicates his life to working in the mine. With Craigies 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 nondocumentary film Craigie directed.

While Olwen is away from home, an industrial psychologist from London named Alfred Collins Anthony Pendrell proposes to her, and she accepts. She announces this news to Tom while attending her fathers funeral following a mining accident. Olwen moves to London with Alfred, but is disillusioned by her new life there.Meanwhile, Tom is injured in a mining accident and spends time at Talygarn, a convalescent home. Here he is looked after by Glynis Dilys Jones, a physiotherapist and friend of Olwen. Tom and Glynis fall in love. Tom also encounters success at work, rising to the position of manager. After his promotion, he visits Olwen in London, in a vain attempt to persuade her to return to Wales. Tom later dies of a miningrelated condition. The film ends with Olwen singing Home Sweet Home in a radio broadcast. ........

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