How Green Was My Valley (Blu-ray)

Rich is their humor! Deep are their passions! Reckless are their lives! Mighty is their story!
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 59 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 15, 2013
  • Originally Released: 1941
  • Label: 20Th Century Fox

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1941 - Best Black-and-White Interior Decoration: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1941 - Best Cinematography: Arthur Miller
Academy Awards 1941 - Best Director: John Ford
Academy Awards 1941 - Best Picture: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1941 - Best Supporting Actor: Donald Crisp

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 7,909
Rating: 4/4 -- There is no logical reason why you should feel as warm and nostalgic as you do at the end of How Green Was My Valley. Full Review
LarsenOnFilm
Sep 14, 2015
Because his recollections ring true, they are certain to evoke a similar nostalgia in all but the most slab-sided of moviegoers. Full Review
TIME Magazine
Feb 17, 2009
The film is beautifully played, with Donald Crisp as the humorous patriarch of the mining village dominating the screen with tough sensibility. Full Review
The Spectator
Feb 15, 2019
Rating: B -- 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. Full Review
Entertainment Weekly
Feb 19, 2013
Expert performances from Donald Crisp, Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, and a host of brilliant character actors enhance a magnificent movie experience. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Dec 13, 2006
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. Full Review
Variety
Jan 30, 2008
Rating: 5/5 -- Sentimental classic still tugs at the heartstrings. Full Review
Common Sense Media
Apr 25, 2017

Product Description:

In John Ford's HOW GREEN IS MY VALLEY, Huw Morgan, now a middle-aged man leaving the mining town of Cwm Rhondda, recalls the events that most impressed themselves upon his younger self (Roddy McDowall). His first memories are of the marriage of his brother, Ivor (Patric Knowles), and the burgeoning romance of his sister, Angharad (Maureen O'Hara), and the new preacher, Mr. Gruffydd (Walter Pidgeon). Still too young to work in the local coal mine like his father, Gwilym (Donald Crisp), and his five older brothers, he senses the seriousness of an imminent strike by the rift it creates between his father and the other boys when three of them move out of the family abode. During the tensions of the strike, Huw saves his mother (Sara Allgood) from drowning and in so doing loses the use of his legs. As Gruffydd aids in Huw's recovery, insisting on a positive attitude, he suggests that it is only the first of many trials the boy will have to face.

Richard Llewellyn's nostalgic novel, with its Fordian themes of family and community, could hardly have found a better director. While the acting and writing are excellent, this is truly Ford's film, one in which his brilliantly chosen groupings and compositions are the most expressive elements. Possibly the most moving film of Ford's career, HOW GREEN IS MY VALLEY received five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director.

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  • UPC: 024543838647
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