The Last Days of Dolwyn

Britain's precursor to 'Wild River' is the only film ever directed by Emlyn Williams, in which he rather perversely cast himself as the serpent in this particular Eden in the form of a disgraced local boy who doesn't even understand Welsh chased out of town for stealing the collection money returned to the land of his fathers to gloatingly offer an ultimatum to the locals to let their village die or face financial oblivion.

Returning locals speak with wonder of Liverpool as an exotic place of houses with seven windows, full of people who never speak to each other; while Edith Evans plays the Jo Van Fleet role and a young and dashing Richard Burton plays Evans' adopted son, both of whom we actually get to hear speak gaelic.