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How Green Was My Valley
Directed by
John Ford
Not Rated
1941
1h 58m
Drama
,
Family
7.7
93%
81%
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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.
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Cast of How Green Was My Valley
Walter Pidgeon
Mr. Gruffydd
Maureen O'Hara
Angharad Morgan
Anna Lee
Bronwyn
Donald Crisp
Gwilym Morgan
Roddy McDowall
Huw Morgan
John Loder
Ianto Morgan
Sara Allgood
Beth Morgan
Barry Fitzgerald
Cyfartha
Patric Knowles
Ivor Morgan
Morton Lowry
Mr. Jonas
Arthur Shields
Mr. Parry
Ann E. Todd
Ceinwen
Frederick Worlock
Dr. Richards
Richard Fraser
Davy Morgan
Evan S. Evans
Gwilym Morgan Jr.
James Monks
Owen Morgan
Rhys Williams
Dai Bando
Lionel Pape
Evans
Ethel Griffies
Mrs. Nicholas
Marten Lamont
Iestyn Evans
Irving Pichel
Adult Huw (Voice)
Jack Curtis
Villager (uncredited)
Herbert Evans
Postman (uncredited)
Mary Field
Eve (uncredited)
Jack Pennick
Mine Superintendent (uncredited)
Robert B. Williams
Minor Role (uncredited)
Bobby Hale
VIllager (uncredited)
How Green Was My Valley Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
Ty Burr
The acting is strong, and Arthur Miller's Oscar-winning photography gives the images a spooky luster, but a little bit of Ford's salt-of-the-earth piety goes an awfully long way.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Captures an idyll of youth that has been lost to the corrosive practices of modern business.
New York Daily News
Kate Cameron
One of the outstanding film productions of the year.
TIME Magazine
James Agee
Because his recollections ring true, they are certain to evoke a similar nostalgia in all but the most slab-sided of moviegoers.
Variety
Abel Green
How Green Was My Valley is one of the year's better films, a sure-fire critic's picture and, unlike most features that draw kudos from crix, this one will also do business.
Chicago Reader
Don Druker
Expert performances from Donald Crisp, Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, and a host of brilliant character actors enhance a magnificent movie experience.
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
You can never expect to see a film more handsomely played.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Katherine Howard
It is a cinema masterpiece of rare beauty. It brings the same thrilling experience as reading a fine piece of poetry or looking at an exquisite painting. You feel that they have come from the heart.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Colvin McPherson
Now you're not a Welsh coal miner and I'm not either, and neither is that guy over there, but I daresay all of us will feel we have lived the experiences of How Green Was My Valley.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
John Ford's much-honored movie about the decline of a Welsh mining family is moving and impressive in a big-Hollywood-picture way.
The New Republic
Otis Ferguson
The deepest things in the picture are the incidental things, but they are thoroughly realized, they are vivid to us, and John Ford did not leave them there by chance.
Los Angeles Times
Edwin Schallert
One cannot but become enthusiastic over such a sincere rendition of life as this picture essays and it is astonishing how replete it is with popular appeal.
Newsweek
Newsweek Staff
How Green Was My Valley has a quality and distinction inadequately described by calling it one of the year's best films. [The film], as directed by John Ford and acted by a fine cast, would have ranked as a best in any season in any country.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mildred Martin
[John Ford] has preferred to make his points quietly, even in moments of disaster and deepest emotion. Just how right he was, how enormously effective his method, you will realize for yourself when, as you must, you see How Green Was My Valley.
Boston Globe
Marjory Adams
The drama is no "made up" tale, but a panoramic glimpse of the small joys, the unmeasurable needs, the many griefs of a whole countryside. It is a story of life that is no more, but it is also a drama of people in every community.
Chicago Tribune
Mae Tinee
This adaptation of Richard Llewellyn's best-selling novel is rare and lovely, rugged and true. Seeing it is an experience no lover of fine films should miss.
Detroit Free Press
Frank P. Gill
In How Green Was My Valley, the emotional and melodramatic impact hits with terrific force because it is so real and so completely credible. The characters in the picture appear to be living their parts rather than acting them.
Austin American-Statesman
Ruth Lewis
Young Roddy McDowall is a lad of inestimable charm as Huw. Wide-eyed, sensitive, he is just the boy for the part. The cast is an altogether worthy one.
San Francisco Examiner
Kevin Wallace
How Green Was My Valley is a work of remarkable earnestness, wide sweep and considerable dramatic courage.
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