Word: brothcock
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...that used to star Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon, attractively but thinly disguised as proletarians on the rise. The time is turn of the century; the place, a Scottish coalpit town complete with oppressed miners, strikes and lockouts, an unfeeling owner and a bloody-minded mine superintendent named Mr. Brothcock. Crichton's story centers on a Scots lass with a will of steel who marries a fine free Highlander, turns him into a miner and plots the escape of their family, the Camerons, from pit and penury through years of sacrifice and discipline. Naturally they do escape...
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