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Name: How Green Was My Valley
Released: 1941-10-28
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp, Anna Lee, Roddy McDowall

How Green Was My Valley

NR
1h 59m
1941

93%

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In this beloved classic, a sixty-year-old looks back on his life as a boy (Roddy McDowall) during the turn of the last century in a small Welsh coal-mining town. As he recalls family dreams, struggles and triumphs, he also remembers the changes to the labor force brought on by industrialization in this acclaimed story that also stars Donald Crisp, Sara Allgood, Maureen O’Hara and Walter Pidgeon.

Director:

John Ford

Producer:

Darryl F. Zanuck

Writer:

Philip Dunne

Cast:

Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp, Anna Lee, Roddy McDowall, John Loder, Sara Allgood, Barry Fitzgerald, Patric Knowles

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

93%

Critics Consensus: Nostalgic without becoming maudlin, this working-class drama is enlivened by a terrific cast and John Ford's ineffable directorial eye.

Reviews

The Film Yap

Christopher Lloyd

Unfairly derided as one of the most undeserving Best Picture winners, John Ford's gorgeous, heartbreaking portrait of a Welsh coal-mining community represents the best sort of cinema.

Core values, faith in God, and the importance of doing a good job well are at the center of this dreary and determined drama.

You cannot translate something you do not know in your bones. Ford has made a sincere and, as I say, moving film of How Green Was My Valley; but something of the salt and wildness of the people about whom Richard Llewellyn wrote is gone.

John Ford's much-honored movie about the decline of a Welsh mining family is moving and impressive in a big-Hollywood-picture way.

The drama is no "made up" tale, but a panoramic glimpse of the small joys, the unmeasurable needs, the many griefs of a whole countryside. It is a story of life that is no more, but it is also a drama of people in every community.

July 26, 2022

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