The Last Days of Dolwyn

The Last Days of Dolwyn renamed Women of Dolwyn for the American market is a 1949 British drama film directed by Russell Lloyd and Emlyn Williams and starring Edith Evans, Emlyn Williams, Richard Burton and Anthony James. The screenplay focuses on a Welshman, who has done well in London, who returns home planning to flood the village he grew up insetting up a conflict between residents who are spiritually attached to the place and the values of the majority for whom money is a more persuasive force.

The story is set in 1892 in and around the small peaceful fictional farming village of Dolwyn in MidWales.A massive dam and reservoir to supply water to Liverpool has been constructed at the head of the valley above Dolwyn, but construction has stopped because of geological difficulties what was thought to be limestone is actually granite. Realising that a cheaper and easier scheme would involve the flooding of the village but unaware that the village was inhabited, Lord Lancashire, the schemes promoter, dispatches an agent, Rob, to visit the village and buy the land. ........

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