How Green Was My Valley
by John Ford
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Actor: Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowall, Walter PidgeonDirector: John Ford
Cinematographer: Arthur C. Miller
Editor: James B. Clark
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Writer: Philip Dunne
Writer: Richard Llewellyn
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-01-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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Movie Review: How bad was coal mining in human terms?
Summary: 3 Stars
The Welsh mining town is the subject of this movie from the perspective of a young boy and his five brothers and one beautiful sister.
The love story of the sister with the minister is told with the back drop of the boy losing his older brother and Dad and his four brothers leaving England.
The mining remained a problem even until today is shown by a modern movie about a miners band that was popular.
The unions have really only been partially successful in coal mining.
Black lung disease and lack of real effective safety regulations
have made this one of the environmentally dangerous of modern
troubles. The sentiment of the movie doesn't change the long term human damage that resulted. The Welsh folk songs in the native language
are a treat as song by a large chorus.
Summary of How Green Was My Valley
Sixty year-old Huw Morgan looks back on his life as a boy (Roddy McDowall) in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of the closely knit Morgans, and his devoted parents (Donald Crisp, Sara Allgood), while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time. Maureen O'Hara and Walter Pidgeon co-star in this acclaimed screen classic, the story of one family's dreams, struggles and triumphs.John Ford's beautiful, heartfelt drama about a close-knit family of Welsh coal miners is one of the greatest films of Hollywood's golden age--a gentle masterpiece that beat Citizen Kane in the Best Picture race for the 1941 Academy Awards. The picture also won Oscars for Best Director (Ford), Best Supporting Actor (Donald Crisp), Best Art Direction, and Best Cinematography; all of those awards were richly deserved, even if they came at the expense of Kane and Orson Welles. Based on the novel by Richard Llewellyn, the film focuses its eventful story on 10-year-old Huw (Roddy McDowall), youngest of seven children to Mr. and Mrs. Morgan (Donald Crisp, Sarah Allgood), a hardy couple who've seen the best and worst of times in their South Wales mining town. They're facing one of the worst times as Mr. Morgan refuses to join a miners union whose members have begun a long-term strike. Family tensions grow and Huw must learn many of life's harsher lessons under the tutelage of the local preacher (Walter Pidgeon), who has fallen in love with Huw's sister (Maureen O'Hara). As various crises are confronted and devastating losses endured, How Green Was My Valley unfolds as a rich, moving portrait of family strength and integrity. It's also a nod to a simpler, more innocent time--and to the preciousness of memory and the inevitable passage from youth to adulthood. An all-time classic, not to be missed. --Jeff Shannon
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