How Green Was My Valley
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Movie Reviews of How Green Was My Valley
Movie Review: Into The Valley
Summary: 4 Stars
John Ford's 1941 film How Green Was My Valley tells the story of a Welsh mining family, the Morgans, through the eyes of the youngest member of the family, ten-year old Huw (Roddy McDowell). Mr. & Mrs. Morgan (Donald Crisp & Sara Allgood) have seven children and struggle to keep their family afloat. Mr. Morgan is a miner, but he refuses to join a newly formed union and join in on their strike. This creates tensions within the family and violence erupts. Through it all the family survives, but their hometown and culture begin to decline. Mr. Ford poignantly portrays the fading of childhood innocence and the good side and down side of life in a small town. The film is still relevant today as Mr. Ford shows how technology dehumanizes society as machinery that is more efficient and cost-effective starts to replace many of the mine's best workers and renders them unneeded and forces them into unemployment. The film beat out what is considered the greatest movie of time, Citizen Kane, to win the 1941 Academy Award for Best Picture and Mr. Ford beat Orson Welles to win his second consecutive Best Director Award (and the third of his total of four). The film won three other Oscars including Best Supporting Actor for Mr. Crisp. The film was to be shot in color on location in Wales, but due to the escalation of World War II, filming was moved to California and shot in black & white to help create the dreariness of South Wales. This worked out brilliantly as the lack of color helps create more a bleaker mood and Arthur C. Miller was rewarded with an Oscar for Best Cinematography.Movie Review: Passionate Family Brings Tear to Watchers of
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a captivating film about the Morgans, a simple coal mining family: strict rules, a pot of weeks' shillings, sorrows, love, and hardships. Roddy McDowall (who gives a frightningly strange and disturbing performance and jerks the most tears) is Huw Morgan, a young boy: quiet, meek, the epitome of childhood. His father is the blunt, strong Gwilym Morgan (an Oscar-winning performance by the great Donald Crisp), a father of six boys and the head of his household who almost loses contact with his sons beause of their different opinions through the new era. His mother is Beth (an Oscar-nominated performance by the funny Sara Allgood), a good-hearted mother, a poineer in a new era of thought and wisdom. Then we come to Angharad Morgan, his beautiful sister played wonderfully by Maureen O'Hara. Angharad has the same meekness and childness as her brother though already a grown woman. Angharad and the church's preacher, Mr. Gruffydd (Walter Pidgeon), have a love at first sight relationship even though he tells her they could never marry which devestates her into marrying her father's boss's son. Anna Lee plays Bronwyn, Huw's tragic brother Ivor (Patric Knowles)'s beautiful wife who Huw has a huge crush on. It is a great movie, a big tearerker, and a movie that'll make you glad for all the things avaliable to us today. The film's cast rounds out with Barry Fitzgerald ("Going My Way"), John Loder, and Rhys Williams as Dai Bando. I'd really give it 4.5 out of 5 stars or 9 out of 10 stars.Movie Review: Touching melodrama
Summary: 4 Stars
This film traces the changes that befall the Morgan family and the Welsh mining community where they live as the pressures of capitalism and industrialization put an end to a gentle way of life. The narrator prefaces the story by acknowledging the tendency of memory to amplify our primary impressions of the past, thereby setting the stage for some of the rampant sentimentality to follow. John Ford's film is melodrama rather than a deeply insightful look into the human condition, but it is affecting, nevertheless. The film provides some much needed balance by treating such issues as unionization, environmental deterioration, and the corrupting effect of poverty and unemployment on the human soul. There are many fine performances, including Roddy McDowell when he was just a little chimp.Movie Review: VERY GOOD FILM, BUT DOESN'T QUITE LIVE UP TO THE PRAISE!
Summary: 4 Stars
It's hard to believe I never saw this film before now as I watch so many older films. 'How Green Was My Valley' is a well told story, but I found some characters didn't have enough detail and the film leaves some loose ends. I know some huge fans will be throwing me negative votes, but I don't write reviews to be popular, only to hopefully inspire movie lovers to see great films and avoid the clunkers.
This is an excellent film with a great cast, but for a film that isn't a musical, there is a lot of singing in this one and it becomes a little annoying! This is well worth your time, unfortunately I have seen better films from the era. I caught this on cable and I'm not sure if the DVD is top quality.
Movie Review: How Green Was My Valley 1941
Summary: 4 Stars
Seen through the eye of a boy (Roddy McDowall 1928-1998) , HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY is the inspiring yet heartbreaking story of young parents (Donald Crisp 1880-1974) and (Sara Allgood 1879-1950) struggling to keep their family together as they endure serve hardship in a small Welsh mining town . Co-starring Maureen O?Hara (1920- ) and Walter Pidgeon (1897-1984) , this acclaimed Classic captures the sentiments and issue of its time while reminding us of his dream , struggles and triuphs every family that can touch every family . This movie are in BLACK & WHITE . Remadstred and transfer in digital High Quality pictures . Recommended