Based on the story "David Goliath," this film brings Paul Robeson to a Welsh valley in search of work. During his wanderings, he joins up with an old busker and the two get by singing on street corners in the mining town of Blaendy. David's resonant voice is heard by Dick Parry, the choirmaster of the local chapel, who is keen to get the young Black into his miners' choir. A job at the town's coal mine quickly follows and David joins the ranks of his fellow workers as they endure the inevitable hardships. Where director Macpherson (Borderline) handled his Black characters with insouciance, affording them equal treatment, director Tennyson's strategy was to give the people and plight of Blaendy equal time. Thus Robeson becomes a decentralized character, large in spirit, but not so large as to squelch the Welsh town and its story. Impressively built, David Goliath was a symbol of strength in the mine, while around him stood his comrades, begrimed with black coal dust. And, as one of the miners remarked: "Down here in the mine, we all look as black as one another. Down here race or color does not matter." David's final act, the quelling of a mining disaster, then becomes not so much an expression of the Black Man's inherent nobility, a favorite Hollywood cliché, as a brave deed in a world that summarily calls forth such conduct.