Dyfan Roberts Movies
- 1991
In this thoughtful drama, the lilt of the Welsh tongue and its special influence on the English spoken in Wales is almost a character on its own. The story concerns a boy who lives with his poor and mentally fragile mother in a small village. His mother has the boy singled out to go into the priesthood, whether that is his wish or not. When a harsh encounter with a mean-spirited relation drives his mother deeper into her own mind, the overwhelmingly oppressive situation causes something in the boy to snap, and what he does to his mother then, he regrets for the rest of his life. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dyfan Roberts
- 1988
Television comes to a remote Welsh town and a young boy becomes a man in this off-beat comedy. The town is Aberheli and the year is 1957. The town newspaper editor loathes the noisesome invention so much that he secretly builds a transmitter to block all television broadcasts. Family trouble ensues because the editor's son begins making a living installing TV antennas for his father's rival who owns Excelsior Electronics. Meanwhile, the young boy gets more than an eyeful of the secret lives of his neighbors while he installs his antennae. At first he keeps it all to himself, but then he begins using his scandalous information for his own gain. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Arwel Gruffydd, Judith Humphreys, (more)
Welsh-born writer Emlyn Williams' 1938 play The Corn is Green originally starred Ethel Barrymore as L.C. Moffat, the strong-willed schoolteacher under whose guidance the illiterate Welsh teenager Morgan Evans matriculates as an honor student. Bette Davis played Moffat in the 1945 film version; this second filmization, made for television on location in North Wales, stars Katharine Hepburn. Morgan Evans is portrayed by newcomer Ian Saynor; the rest of the cast is populated by such old reliables as Bill Fraser and Anna Massey. Directed by George Cukor (his ninth collaboration with Katharine Hepburn), The Corn is Green premiered on January 29, 1979. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
