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€œBette Davis gives a sharp, vital interpretation of Miss Moffat (the spinster teacher fighting to educate the poor children of a Welsh mining village)€¦by remaining true to its legitimate stage counterpart,€ said the Herald Tribune. The story, based on Emlyn Williams€ autobiographical play, focuses on the relationship between Miss Moffat and her gifted young prodigy from the mines, Morgan Evans (John Dall). €œConsumed by inward fire, by the sheer joy of imparting knowledge€ (London Picture Post), she molds him into a legitimate candidate for an Oxford scholarship in the remarkably short span of two years. Despite the disaster of Morgan€s seduction by trouble-making Bessie (Joan Lorring), the mutual struggle between teacher and pupil becomes a glorious triumph of the human spirit. €œOnly Bette Davis€¦could have combated so successfully the obvious intention of the adaptors of the play to make frustrated sex the mainspring of the plot,€ observed Picture Post.