Rent How Green Was My Valley (1941)
3.7 of 5 from 118 ratings
1h 54min
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- Synopsis:
- 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.
- Actors:
- Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowall, John Loder, Sara Allgood, Barry Fitzgerald, Patric Knowles, Welsh Singers, Morton Lowry, Arthur Shields, Ann E. Todd, Frederick Worlock, Richard Fraser
- Directors:
- John Ford
- Producers:
- Darryl Zanuck
- Voiced By:
- Irving Pichel
- Writers:
- Philip Dunne, Richard Llewellyn
- Others:
- Arthur Miller, Nathan Juran, Richard Day, James B. Clark, Alfred Newman, Thomas Little, E. H. Hansen
- Studio:
- 20th Century Fox
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Classics, Drama
- Collections:
- Acting Up: British Actors at the Oscars, Award Winners, Ireland At the Oscars, New waves of Latin American Cinema, Oscar Nominations Competition 2023, Oscar Nominations Competition 2024, Oscar's Two-Time Club, Oscars: Winners & Losers, The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to Howard Hawks, Top 10 Best Picture Follow-Ups, Top 10 British Actresses of the 1940s, Top Films, What to watch by country
- Awards:
1942 Oscar Best Supporting Actor
1942 Oscar Best Cinematography Black and White
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 28/01/2013
- Run Time:
- 114 minutes
- Languages:
- Castilian Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio Mono, English Dolby Digital 1.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French DTS 5.1, German DTS 5.1, Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono, Spanish Dolby Digital 1.0
- Subtitles:
- Castillian, Danish, Dutch, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Audio Commentary by Actor Anna Lee Nathan and Film Historian Joseph McBride, Author of 'Searching for John Ford'
- Hollywood Backstories Episode: How Green Was My Valley
- Original Theatrical Trailer
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Reviews (2) of How Green Was My Valley
An Absolute Gem - How Green Was My Valley review by GI
This Oscar winning drama about a small Welsh mining village at the turn of the nineteenth century is a film that every cinephile should ensure they see and see again. It's a wonderfully directed and edited film full of love, hope and heartbreak - a story about family, about good times and bad times and the loss of community. Like a lot of John Ford's films it relishes folklore with song and dance, tradition and attacks religion and the stifling of freedom. A great cast including Walter Pidgeon as the village preacher, Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp and a young Roddy McDowall. The story follows a loving family of miners overseen by strict but loving mother and father as seen through the eyes of the youngest boy (McDowall) who watches the break up of the family as economical disaster strikes and eventually tragedy. A beautiful and moving classic and a film that deserves a fresh appreciation from a new audience. If you've never seen this then seek it out you'll not be disappointed. This is a real gem.
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Fake views. - How Green Was My Valley review by RhysH
"How Green Was My Valley" beat "Citizen Kane" for the 1941 best picture Oscar, I would love to have see Orson Wells's face at the award ceremony. Based on the novel by Richard Llewellyn who claimed to be a Welsh miner's son born in St David's. He was in fact born in Hendon, London and his name was Vivian Lloyd.
The film gives a rather over sentimental picture of life in a 1940s Welsh mining village. The set was constructed in Malibu, California, even the chimney smoke looks carefully manufactured. The miner's cottage is spacious and well furnished. Maureen O'Hara as the miner's daughter is immaculate in hair and makeup and a dress for every occasion. The Sunday-suited men have walked straight out of the draper's catalogue. And of course the miners on their way to work start singing at the drop of a Davy lamp.
There are, however, beneath the unrealistic chocolate box lid some hard centres. The hypocrisy of some religious leaders; the class ridden, punitive education system; how a strike can divide families; how the death of one miner touches the whole community.
It is powerfully acted, particularly by Donald Crisp, the patriarch and Sara Allgood as his outspoken wife.
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