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How Green Was My Valley (1941) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Mar 7, 2000
Budget $1,250,000
Running Time
1 hour, 58 minutes
Country USA
Studio 20th Century Fox
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Other Titles
• How Green Was My Valley
• Schlagende Wetter (1950)
• Schwarze Diamanten (1950)
• So grün war mein Tal (1948)
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Genre: Romance, Drama, Epic, Political, Society, Aliens, Marriage, School / Campus, Love, Melodrama, Coming Of Age
Tagline: Millions Have Read This Great Novel... Millions more will see an even greater picture!
Plot: In John Ford's HOW GREEN IS MY VALLEY, Huw Morgan, now a middle-aged man leaving the mining town of Cwm Rhondda, recalls the events that most impressed themselves upon his younger self (Roddy McDowall). His first memories are of the marriage of his brother, Ivor (Patric Knowles), and the burgeoning romance of his sister, Angharad (Maureen O'Hara), and the new preacher, Mr. Gruffydd (Walter Pidgeon). Still too young to work in the local coal mine like his father, Gwilym (Donald Crisp), and his five older brothers, he senses the seriousness of an imminent strike by the rift it creates between his father and the other boys when three of them move out of the family abode. During the tensions of the strike, Huw saves his mother (Sara Allgood) from drowning and in so doing loses the use of his legs. As Gruffydd aids in Huw's recovery, insisting on a positive attitude, he suggests that it is only the first of many trials the boy will have to face. Richard Llewellyn's nostalgic novel, with its Fordian themes of family and community, could hardly have found a better director. While the acting and writing are excellent, this is truly Ford's film, one in which his brilliantly chosen groupings and compositions are the most expressive elements. Possibly the most moving film of Ford's
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| Directed by |
John Ford
The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, The Quiet Man |
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| Written by |
| Philip Dunne
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Agony and the Ecstasy, The Egyptian |
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 | Anna Lee
The Sound of Music, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | Donald Crisp
The Birth of a Nation, Mutiny on the Bounty, Wuthering Heights | Roddy McDowall
A Bug's Life, Planet of the Apes, The Poseidon Adventure | John Loder
Sabotage, Now, Voyager, Passage to Marseille | | |
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| Music By |
Alfred Newman
All About Eve, The Seven Year Itch, Foreign Correspondent |
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