How Green Was My Valley

How Green Was My Valley

1941 · 118 min · EN · NR · 7.2 (349 votes)
Dir. John Ford · Starring Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowall, John Loder · Music Alfred Newman

Rich is their humor! Deep are their passions! Reckless are their lives! Mighty is their story!

Drama

A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.

VIBE

A deeply felt, sweeping saga of a Welsh mining family's joys and sorrows. It's a poignant, nostalgic look back at a lost way of life, filled with warmth, hardship, and enduring love.

nostalgicmelancholicsentimentalbittersweetslow-burnclassic Hollywood dramaperiod pieceblack and whitefamilylosssocial changenostalgia
walesbased on novel or bookfamily relationshipsrural areablack and whitegossipmining towncoal miningcoal minecorporal punishmentcoal miner
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