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- “How Green Was My Valley” was critically acclaimed upon its release. The film garnered praise for its poignant storytelling, well-rounded characters, and stunning visuals. The movie’s success prompted a resurgence of interest in Welsh culture.
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How Green Was My Valley is a 1939 novel by Richard Llewellyn, narrated by Huw Morgan, the main character, about his Welsh family and the mining community in which they live.
- Richard Llewellyn
- 1939
How Green Was My Valley (1941) is one of John Ford's masterpieces of sentimental human drama. It is the melodramatic and nostalgic story, adapted by screenwriter Philip Dunne from Richard Llewellyn's best-selling novel, of a close-knit, hard-working Welsh coal-mining family (the Morgans) at the turn of the century as a socio-economic way of ...
How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 American drama film directed by John Ford, adapted by Philip Dunne from the 1939 novel of the same title by Richard Llewellyn. It stars Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, and a young Roddy McDowall.
May 7, 2024 · Fox's first-ever Best Picture Oscar winner, How Green Was My Valley, was also the film that infamously upstaged Citizen Kane at the Academy Awards.
- Devin Meenan
Huw Morgan (Roddy McDowall), the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change.
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- Drama
“How Green Was My Valley” is one of Ford’s most lyrically beautiful, if also sentimental, pictures. The critic Andrew Sarris has described the movie as an elegiac poem, and for many it was. The film’s portrayal of the disintegration of a mining community is of epic and heroic dimensions.