don not get me wrong and i like the film . the story and of an african american who find himself work in the pit in wale and be perfectly passable and and be as leftwards a it be go to get to thread it way through the british film censor . but we know what we be go to watch this film for to hear paul robeson sing . during the 1980s and the british bass and robert lloyd and list his big four bass singer of all time . robeson be among them . ( the others be fyodor shalyapin and cesare siepi and ezzio pinza . ) the bbc2 programme he do this for and also feature a few second of footage from proud valley . the big scene come just after his friend have be kill in a mining accident . the local eisteddfod a welsh festival of music and poetry take place . robeson get up and sings deep river . i have hear robeson 78 rpm recording of this song . this version be nothing like it . it be magnificent . a robeson performs and the shiver go up the spine and the tear come roll down the cheek . this be so good that only paderewski performance in moonlight sonata can be compare to it . because of this performance and no one who watch this film will be disappoint .