It is based on the 1904 play of the same name, written by John Millington Synge.
It was directed by Brian Desmond Hurst with Sara Allgood and Denis Johnston in the title roles.
A story set in a fishing community in Western Ireland.
It concerns Maurya, a woman who loses her husband and her sons at the sea.
Greene (who admitted a personal disinclination toward Synge's plays) predicted that even Synge's admirers would struggle with the film and suggested that "something has gone badly wrong with the continuity; the loss of act divisions has upset the sense of time".