Product Description: A sixty-year-old man who looks back on his life in a welsh mining town. Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 03/02/2004 Starring: Roddy Mcdowall Donald Crisp Run time: 118 minutes Rating: Nr Director: John Ford
Amazon.com essential video: 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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Rating: - "Men like my father cannot die."
A man recalls his early days growing up in a small village in Wales, the youngest in a family of coal miners. His father was wise and strong, his mother gentle, his brothers hard workers, and his only sister beautiful. They faced the ups and downs of life with courage and hope.
Rating: - The Valley
"There is no fence nor hedge round Time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it, if you can remember. So I can close my eyes on my Valley as it is today - and it is gone - and I see it as it was when I was a boy. Green it was, and possessed of the plenty of the earth. In all Wales, there was none ... Read More
Rating: - How Green was my Valley
Best picture Oscar Winner for that year, family oriented, very much enjoy waching this movie.
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