The Corn Is Green (1979 film)

The Corn Is Green is a 1979 American madefortelevision drama film starring Katharine Hepburn as a schoolteacher determined to bring education to a Welsh coal mining town, despite great opposition. It was directed by George Cukor, the tenth and last collaboration on film between the director and the actress, and is the second and last madefortelevision film directed by Cukor. The filming was done in Wales. It was adapted from the play of the same name by Emlyn Williams, and had previously been filmed in 1945 with Bette Davis in the main role.

However, Bessie Watty Toyah Willcox, a young woman who has recently given birth to Morgans child, blackmails the faculty into giving her part of Morgans scholarship money in order to help raise the baby. The conniving young woman has designs on another male suitor. Instead, Moffatt volunteers to adopt the child so that Morgans academic future will not be ruined and Watty will be free to marry another man, unfettered by her responsibility to the child since she and her affianced never really cared for it in the first place. Morgan quickly hears about Wattys scandalous, selfserving motives, and insists upon raising the child himself. Through a heartfelt and persuasive conversation, Moffatt convinces the young man to continue his higher education and contribute something to the world.

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