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How Green Was My Valley

  • 1941
  • Passed
  • 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.

  • Director
    • John Ford
  • Writers
    • Philip Dunne
    • Richard Llewellyn
  • Stars
    • Walter Pidgeon
    • Maureen O'Hara
    • Anna Lee
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.7/10
    25K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • John Ford
    • Writers
      • Philip Dunne
      • Richard Llewellyn
    • Stars
      • Walter Pidgeon
      • Maureen O'Hara
      • Anna Lee
    • 186User reviews
    • 96Critic reviews
    • 88Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • 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. Gruffydd
    Maureen O'Hara
    Maureen O'Hara
    • Angharad
    Anna Lee
    Anna Lee
    • Bronwyn
    Donald Crisp
    Donald Crisp
    • Mr. Morgan
    Roddy McDowall
    Roddy McDowall
    • Huw
    John Loder
    John Loder
    • Ianto
    Sara Allgood
    Sara Allgood
    • Mrs. Morgan
    Barry Fitzgerald
    Barry Fitzgerald
    • Cyfartha
    Patric Knowles
    Patric Knowles
    • Ivor
    Welsh Singers
    • Singers
    Morton Lowry
    Morton Lowry
    • Mr. Jonas
    Arthur Shields
    Arthur Shields
    • Mr. Parry
    Ann E. Todd
    Ann E. Todd
    • Ceinwen
    • (as Ann Todd)
    Frederick Worlock
    Frederick Worlock
    • Dr. Richards
    Richard Fraser
    Richard Fraser
    • Davy
    Evan S. Evans
    • Gwilym
    James Monks
    James Monks
    • Owen
    Rhys Williams
    Rhys Williams
    • Dai Bando
    • Director
      • John Ford
    • Writers
      • Philip Dunne
      • Richard Llewellyn
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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

    User reviews186

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    8/10
    It swiped the Oscar in front of Citizen Kane's nose
    Best Picture in 1941, Academy Awards for directing and black-and-white cinematography, a total of five Oscars out of ten nominations. Nine out of ten were clear to me long before the movie ended, but for most of its duration, I wondered how the hell something so boring and needless was nominated for Best Screenplay. During the first hour, I had thought of giving up. I didn't. And so I kept watching and watching until the end and a good chunk of time after the movie was over I was still staring at the black screen. Maybe there's not much going on in this movie, but the atmosphere of one past time, the emotion it conveys, and the impressions it left, totally dazed me. And now I can not even understand anymore how this could have been boring... It defeated "Citizen Kane" and it beat it deservedly.

    8/10
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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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