The Corn is Green (1979) (MOD)

The Corn is Green (1979) (MOD)Miss Moffat, an Englishwoman who relocates to an early 1900s mining community, is astonished to see children working in the mines. "After one week," a townsman observes, "they are old men." She resolves to make the children and especially one prize pupil something else: scholars. Katharine Hepburn stars in director George Cukor's exquisite version of Emlyn Williams' beloved play. This 10th and final Hepburn Cukor collaboration met initial reluctance

Acclaimed actor/producer John Houseman ("The Paper Chase

playing against type in heroic sequences far removed from his familiar light comedies

gonged with wedding bells and pulsed with perfectly matched orchestral accompaniment

whose ravishing beauty hides a secret Lavalle's soldiers will soon give their lives to learn

and the distinguished George Sanders (All About Eve) as the painted

the biggest hare in Hollywood: Bugs Bunny -- his greatest chases

The top supporting cast includes Lionel Barrymore (as Jackson)

he's no longer a gung-ho devil dog when back in combat

citizens live idyllic lives until they turn 30 and are led to Carousel for "renewal" - but instead are killed

- continue to be involved in their misadventures

DAUGHTERS COURAGEOUS Should a daughter marry a footloose charmer who's a lot like Dad

Robert Montgomery graduates summa cum laughter in this rah-rah musical