How Green Was My Valley
Rich is their humor! Deep are their passions! Reckless are their lives! Mighty is their story!
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
- 7.3
- 1941
- Released
- 1h 58m
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 BandoLionel 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)
Released
en
$1,250,000.00
$6,000,000.00
- #wales
- #based on novel or book
- #family relationships
- #rural area
- #black and white
- #gossip
- #mining town
- #coal mining
- #coal mine
- #corporal punishment
- #coal miner
- #wistful
Reviews
Made at the start of WWII, there is something especially potent about this simple story of a Victorian family of Welsh miners. The mine was their economy, their community and patriarch "Morgan" (Donald Crisp) the stern, but loving, father of five sons. It soon becomes clear to his sons that the reliability of the mining industry as a source of income could be waning. Their wages begin to be cut, t