John Ford's How Green Was My Valley is notable for starring just one Welsh actor, Rhys Williams, and for being shot in the United States. Although John Ford's view of Wales was based on a mythical and romantic view of the industrialised valleys, Jill Cragie's Blue Scar (1949), part financed by the National Coal Board, raised serious and radical questions about the nationalisation of the coal industry and has striking location photography around south Wales.
John Ford's portrayal of Wales was based on a romanticized view of the industrialized valleys, while Jill Cragie's "Blue Scar" (1949) presented a more critical and realistic perspective on the nationalization of the coal industry in Wales.