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 How Green Was My Valley 

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 How Green Was My Valley 
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How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 drama film directed by John Ford. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, written by Philip Dunne, and based on the Richard Llewellyn novel of the same name. The film stars Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, and Roddy McDowall. It was nominated for ten Academy Awards, winning five and beating out such classics as Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon, Suspicion and Sergeant York for Best Picture.

The film tells the story of the Morgans, a close, hard-working Welsh family at the turn of the twentieth century in the South Wales coalfield at the heart of the South Wales Valleys. It chronicles a socio-economic way of life passing and the family unit disintegrating.

In 1990, How Green Was My Valley was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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I haven't seen it for many, many years, but remember it for it's suitably melancholy tone, brilliant acting, and great screenplay. It's one of the top ten movies of the 40's.

John Ford deserved an Oscar for his work here, he just picked a bad year to make this film because Citizen Kane was the true best picture of 1941...


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6/10 -> C

Thankfully, 40s have many many movies that are better than this. Overly sappy and the plot isn't well handled. There's no real character development and change, they just jump and change in an instant...

It's well filmed, but other than that it turned out to be a disappointment.


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How Green was My Valley I think is deserving of its 1941 Best Picture Oscar. It takes a lot of tragedy and life-changing events and makes them easier to connect with along with resolving matters in a lightweight, and sometimes amusing way. The actors are great all around and it is another great entry from Ford. ***1/2


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If I was alive then, I would've been rooting for The Maltese Falcon to win. :P

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