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How Green Was My Valley

  • 19411941
  • PassedPassed
  • 1h 58m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
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Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowall, Sara Allgood, Donald Crisp, John Loder, Walter Pidgeon, and Evan S. Evans in How Green Was My Valley (1941)
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At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
24K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
3,471
2,550
  • Director
    • John Ford
  • Writers
    • Philip Dunne(screen play)
    • Richard Llewellyn(based on the novel by)
  • Stars
    • Walter Pidgeon
    • Maureen O'Hara
    • Anna Lee
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  • Director
    • John Ford
  • Writers
    • Philip Dunne(screen play)
    • Richard Llewellyn(based on the novel by)
  • Stars
    • Walter Pidgeon
    • Maureen O'Hara
    • Anna Lee
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 181User reviews
    • 95Critic reviews
    • 88Metascore
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    • Won 5 Oscars
      • 13 wins & 6 nominations total

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    Roddy McDowall and Walter Pidgeon in How Green Was My Valley (1941)
    Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Barry Fitzgerald, Richard Fraser, John Loder, and Rhys Williams in How Green Was My Valley (1941)
    Sara Allgood, Donald Crisp, Richard Fraser, John Loder, James Monks, and Evan S. Evans in How Green Was My Valley (1941)
    Maureen O'Hara and Walter Pidgeon in How Green Was My Valley (1941)
    Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, and Walter Pidgeon in How Green Was My Valley (1941)
    Maureen O'Hara, Richard Fraser, John Loder, James Monks, and Evan S. Evans in How Green Was My Valley (1941)
    Sara Allgood and Donald Crisp in How Green Was My Valley (1941)
    Patric Knowles and Welsh Singers in How Green Was My Valley (1941)
    Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, and Walter Pidgeon in How Green Was My Valley (1941)
    How Green Was My Valley (1941)
    Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowall, Sara Allgood, Donald Crisp, and Anna Lee in How Green Was My Valley (1941)
    Walter Pidgeon in How Green Was My Valley (1941)

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    Walter Pidgeon
    Walter Pidgeon
    • Mr. Gruffyddas Mr. Gruffydd
    Maureen O'Hara
    Maureen O'Hara
    • Angharadas Angharad
    Anna Lee
    Anna Lee
    • Bronwynas Bronwyn
    Donald Crisp
    Donald Crisp
    • Mr. Morganas Mr. Morgan
    Roddy McDowall
    Roddy McDowall
    • Huwas Huw
    John Loder
    John Loder
    • Iantoas Ianto
    Sara Allgood
    Sara Allgood
    • Mrs. Morganas Mrs. Morgan
    Barry Fitzgerald
    Barry Fitzgerald
    • Cyfarthaas Cyfartha
    Patric Knowles
    Patric Knowles
    • Ivoras Ivor
    Welsh Singers
    • Singersas Singers
    Morton Lowry
    Morton Lowry
    • Mr. Jonasas Mr. Jonas
    Arthur Shields
    Arthur Shields
    • Mr. Parryas Mr. Parry
    Ann E. Todd
    Ann E. Todd
    • Ceinwenas Ceinwen
    • (as Ann Todd)
    Frederick Worlock
    Frederick Worlock
    • Dr. Richardsas Dr. Richards
    Richard Fraser
    Richard Fraser
    • Davyas Davy
    Evan S. Evans
    • Gwilymas Gwilym
    James Monks
    James Monks
    • Owenas Owen
    Rhys Williams
    Rhys Williams
    • Dai Bandoas Dai Bando
    • Director
      • John Ford
    • Writers
      • Philip Dunne(screen play)
      • Richard Llewellyn(based on the novel by)
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    • Trivia
      When the miners greet their women by putting their earnings in baskets, Maureen O'Hara stopped the scene's filming once she noticed that her basket was a modern Kraft basket and not a basket of the movie's period. John Ford was so upset by being corrected in front of the cast and crew that he closed down the set and told O'Hara to wait on a nearby hill until he called for her. Fuming, O'Hara waited an hour before an assistant came to retrieve her, but was satisfied to see that the basket had been changed upon her return.
    • Goofs
      The wage reduction proclamation contains the word "labor" (American spelling) rather than "labour" as any British Islander would spell it.
    • Quotes

      Mr. Gruffydd: You've been lucky, Huw. Lucky to suffer and lucky to spend these weary months in bed. For so God has given you a chance to make the spirit within yourself. And as your father cleans his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit... By prayer, Huw. And by prayer, I don't mean shouting, mumbling, and wallowing like a hog in religious sentiment. Prayer is only another name for good, clean, direct thinking. When you pray, think. Think well what you're saying. Make your thoughts into things that are solid. In that way, your prayer will have strength, and that strength will become a part of you, body, mind, and spirit.

    • Alternate versions
      Original stereophonic soundtrack recovered and restored for later video and cable TV release.
    • Connections
      Edited into The Time Tunnel: End of the World (1966)
    • Soundtracks
      Rhyfelgyrch Gwyr Harlech
      (uncredited)

      (Men of Harlech)

      Traditional Welsh folk song

      Played and Sung during the opening credits

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    8/10
    Classic and enjoyable John Ford film with great cast giving terrific performance
    Vintage and memorable film and one of Ford and Maureen O'Hara's best. This tearjerker tale of a Welsh's valley's turn of the century family from a coal mining region . It is told in flashback by a voice-in-off carried out by Huw Morgan (Roddy McDowall) who has decided to leave the valley forever . As he remembers back to his growing up period, when the dust from the coal mines, his family , mirths and distresses . Huw (played by a 13-year-old Roddy McDowall) is the youngest in a family composed by parents (Donald Crisp , Sara Allgood) and 6 brothers (John Loder, Patrick Knowles, among others) and one sister (Maureen O'Hara) who falls in love with the new preacher, Mr. Gruffydd (Walter Pidgeon) , who had a slightly different view of his relationship with her, and which would end up destroying his life in the valley. Rich is their humor! Deep are their passions! Reckless are their lives! Mighty is their story! Millions Have Read This Great Novel... Millions more will see an even greater picture!

    Stunning and sensitive tale about tribulations and trial of a Welsh mining family from the youthful perspective of the youngest child , marvelously played bt the agreeable prodigy child Roddy MacDowall who had subsequently a long career as a great secondary actor . This dramatic film contains interesting characters , full of good feeling and tragic moments . This classic , sturdy picture ranks as one of the most sentimental of John Ford's work . It contains Ford's usual themes as familiar feeling , religion , friendship , sacrifice , sense of comradeship among people and ample shots on the mining village .It is a hight-spirited tale , being one of Ford's finest movies with a marvelous fresh-air feeling . Thought-provoking , enjoyable screenplay portraying in depth characters and brooding events with interesting issues running beneath script surface .In the forties , Ford won-back-to-back Best Director Oscars for two more classics he made at Fox, the screen adaptations of future Nobel laureate John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Grapes of the wrath (1940) in 1941, and of Richard Llewellyn's memoir of his youth in the coal-mining region of Wales, this How Green was my valley (1941) . Adequate production design that achieved a deserved Oscar , buit by Richard Day and Nathan Juran , 160 builders took six months to construct Richard Day's elaborate set design. The studio brought in blocks of coal weighing over a ton apiece for the construction of the mines. To create the impression that coal slag covered the landscape in the opening and closing scenes, John Ford had the hillside painted black. This magnificent film featuring a magnificent performance by the whole casting , including a top-notch support cast such as Anna Lee , John Loder , Sara Allgood ,Barry FitzGerald , Rhys Williams ,Frederick Worlock , Ann Todd , Richard Fraser and Arthur Shields .There is another rendition about this classic story made in 1975 by Ronald Wilson (6 episodes, 1975-1976) with Stanley Baker , Siân Phillips , Mike Gwilym , Gareth Thomas .

    Beautifully cinematographed by Arthur Miller in black and while , plenty of lights and shades . Evocative and sensitive musical score by Alfred Newman . The picture was magnificently directed by John Ford . John Ford often referred to this film as his favorite. In the 1940s, Ford won-back-to-back Best Director Oscars for two more classics he made at Fox, the screen adaptations of future Nobel laureate John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The grapes of the wrath (1940) in 1941, and of Richard Llewellyn's memoir of his youth in the coal-mining region of Wales, ¡Qué verde era mi valle! (1941) . the mid-1940s, after working in many genres, Ford began to focus on Westerns again, beginning with My Darling Clementine (1946), one of the classics of the genre. Many of his Westerns featured John Wayne, whom he had first worked with on Stagecoach (1939) and who became a superstar in Howard Hawks' classic oater Río Rojo (1948). Wayne appeared in Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), and Río Grande (1950), the famous "Cavalry Trilogy." Along with "My Darling Clementine," Ford was plumbing the nature of American myth-making, and the creation of history as an historical narrative, that is, the re-creation of history John Ford created so many classic Westerns that he began to be associated with the genre. It's interesting to note that from 1950 through 1959, he made only one Western, the classic The searchers (1956), one of the greatest examples of the genre. Starting with Horse soldiers (1959) which he made for the Mirisch Co. at the end of the decade, six of his last eight completed movies were Westerns, including his last masterpiece, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." rating : Above average , 8 .
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    • Release date
      • April 9, 1942 (Australia)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Welsh
    • Also known as
      • Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley
    • Filming locations
      • Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    • Budget
      • $1,250,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 58 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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