How Green Was My Valley

[119 min; 1941; b/w; English]
Director: John Ford

With Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara, Anna Lee

Multiple award winner including Oscar Award for Best Picture, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction, Academy Awards, USA 1942; NYFCC Award for Best Director, New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1941; recipient of the National Film Registry, National Film Preservation Board, USA 1990; among others

An adaptation of Richard Llewellyn's 1939 novel, one of the most beautifully-shot films of the 1940s. The film represents one of the highest achievements of John Ford's career-long fascination with the ebb and flow of life in a small community and the family as a small-scale extension of that community. The story of the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family living in the heart of the South Wales Valleys during the 19th century. The story chronicles life in the South Wales coalfields, the loss of that way of life and its effect on the family.

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