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How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara Director: John Ford Rating: NR (Not Rated) Format: DVD

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Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowall
Directors: John Ford
Writers: Philip Dunne, Richard Llewellyn
Producers: Darryl F. Zanuck
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, NTSC
Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Release Date: January 14, 2003
Run Time: 118 minutes

Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (83 customer reviews)

ASIN: B00006RCO3
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,407 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
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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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Sixty year-old Huw Morgan looks back on his life as a boy (Roddy McDowall) in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of the closely knit Morgans, and his devoted parents (Donald Crisp, Sara Allgood), while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time. Maureen O'Hara and Walter Pidgeon co-star in this acclaimed screen classic, the story of one family's dreams, struggles and triumphs.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Into The Valley, February 21, 2003

By	Thomas Magnum (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best films about family ever made. Very moving., August 10, 1999

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This movie is impeccably crafted, written, performed, and directed. It's impossible not to be drawn in emotionally. Both HOW GREEN and Ford's pervious film, THE GRAPES OF WRATH, are realistic depictions of the effects of severe economic and social conditions upon a family. But while GRAPES centers more on the social conditions, VALLEY focuses primarily on the family itself. Indeed, it mourns the loss of family unity. The legendary Irish-American Ford was known for his gruff, crusty exterior, but pictures like this one show his sentimentality and his belief in the basic values of human life.

HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY is about a large, close-knit family, the Morgans, in a small Welsh mining town. The family is headed by a firm father and a gentle, wise mother, and comprises six sons and one daughter. The five grown sons are, like their father, coal miners, and it is their hope that the sixth son, sensitive and intelligent Huw (Roddy McDowall), will become a scholar. It is through Huw's eyes that the story is told. He looks back as an older man and reflects on his family, his valley, and its people.

He grows up in a time of change, watching in confusion as a secure way of life is altered for the worse by mine owners who overwork the mines and alienate the miners, leading his brothers to call for unionism, a concept which his father abhors. This is the central decision from which the other threads of this compelling story evolve, and the film is ultimately a beautifully moving drama, one of the best films about family ever made.

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5.0 out of 5 stars "Trees" Also Grow in Wales, October 10, 2003

By	Robert Morris (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Frankly, I had forgotten how excellent this film is until seeing it again recently. (It received the Academy Award for best film in 1941in competition with Citizen Kane and the other nominees.) The impact on me of a film at a given time is almost wholly dependent on how accessible I am when seeing it. I first saw How Green Was My Valley as a child and then again several years later. Probably because since then I have become a father and then a grandfather, I am much more appreciative now than I was before of what director John Ford achieves in his portrayal of a Welsh mining town and of a specific family there which struggles so courageously to enable one of its own, not only to escape from the mines but from the limits of a culture (albeit loving and supportive) to fulfill his human potentialities which would otherwise be denied. The film covers a 50-year period as an adult Huw Morgan recalls it (he is played by Roddy McDowell), with the primary focus on his ordeals as the youngest of several children. Donald Crisp received an Academy Award as best actor in a supporting role as Morgan family's patriarch. Many believe this is Ford's best film and I would be hard-pressed to disagree with them. It really has everything. With Philip Dunne's screenplay based on Richard Llewellyn's novel, How Green Was My Valley combines superior acting and cinematography with Alfred Newman's complementary musical score. For me, this film's greatness is found in its graphic portrayal of hardship and despair in a bleak mining town which are offset by a proud family's enduring faith in Huw and their determination to protect and support him. Ford affirms their essential dignity with a respect and admiration he invites us to share.

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5.0 out of 5 stars How Green Was My Valley
Have always loved this movie and am so glad to now have it in my DVD collection. It is a movie you can watch over and over.

Published 4 days ago by Elizabeth Kuszewski

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful old classic
This film was one of the greatest achievements of Hollywood's Golden Age, winning many awards (it beat out Citizen Kane at the 1941 Academy Awards) and is still worth watching... Read more

Published 1 month ago by magellan

4.0 out of 5 stars VERY GOOD FILM, BUT DOESN'T QUITE LIVE UP TO THE PRAISE!
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... Read more

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5.0 out of 5 stars Green; your valley was very, very green...
With the strength of a four-hour epic yet the packaging of a two-hour family drama, `How Green Was My Valley' may very well be...perfect. Read more

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5.0 out of 5 stars How Grand Was My Review
The DVD of "How Green Was My Valley" completes a long-running family tradition for me. My father first showed me this film when I was 7. Read more

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3.0 out of 5 stars How bad was coal mining in human terms?
The Welsh mining town is the subject of this movie from the perspective of a young boy and his five brothers and one beautiful sister. Read more

Published 6 months ago by R. Bagula

2.0 out of 5 stars Great film, but DVD not great quality
How Green Was My Valley has been my favorite movie of all time for many years! I was delighted to add it to my DVD collection. Read more

Published 7 months ago by NoSpringChicken

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Film
This was a great film from long ago. The quality was outstanding, probably better than the original!!

Published 8 months ago by W. Thompson

5.0 out of 5 stars HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
IT IS SUCH A GREAT MOVIE WISH MORE YOUNGER PEOPLE HAD A CHANCE TO SEE THESE TYPES OF MOVIES. tHEY WOULD THEN KNOW WHAT A TRUE STAR AND MOVIE WAS INSTEAD OF THE JUNK MADE NOW.

Published 8 months ago by Sharon Dorrough

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