 Rapper, who was selected by Davis to helm the film, had directed her in "Now, Voyager" ten years earlier.Co-star and script doctor Emlyn Williams wrote the original play on which Davis' 1945 film "The Corn Is Green" was based.Exteriors of the United Artists release were filmed on location in Malham, West Riding of Yorkshire (now in North Yorkshire), and interiors were shot at the Nettlefold Studios in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.