The Brave Don't Cry (1952)
1h 29m
Running Time
August 1, 1952Release Date
The Brave Don't Cry (1952)
1h 29m
Running Time
August 1, 1952Release Date
Plot.
The Brave Don't Cry aspires to the "feel" of a documentary, right down to the deliberate absence of background music. A mine in Scotland falls victim to a cave-in, trapping some one hundred workers. Rescue parties are formed as the tremulous families of the miners wait in agony. As in the actual incident upon which this film is based, the rescue is nip and tuck and times, but eventually successful. The faces of real-life Scottish mining folk are melded with the professional actors in The Brave Don't Cry, adding poignancy to this otherwise cut-and-dried film.
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Cast & Crew.
John Gregson
John Cameron
Meg Buchanan
Margaret Wishart
John Rae
Donald Sloan
Fulton Mackay
Dan Wishart
Jack Stewart
Willie Duncan
Philip Leacock
Director
Wendy Noel
Jean Knox
Montagu Slater
Writer
Russell Waters
Hughie Aitken
Lindsay Galloway
Writer
Arthur Grant
Cinematographer
Jameson Clark
Doctor Andrew Kerr
John Trumper
Editor
Eric Woodburn
Rab Elliott
Andrew Keir
Charlie Ross
Archie Duncan
Walter Hardie
Media.
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The Brave Don't Cry is a 1952 British drama film directed by Philip Leacock and starring John Gregson, Meg Buchanan and John Rae. The film depicts the events of September 1950 at the Knockshinnoch Castle colliery in Scotland, where 129 men were trapped by a landslide (see Knockshinnoch Disaster September 1950). It was shot at Southall Studios and was also known by the alternative title Knockshinnoch Story. The filmmakers used actors from the Glasgow Citizens Theatre. It was screened at the Venice Film Festival in September 1952.