How Green Was My Valley

Updated: 18 Jul 2022

Directors:

John Ford Darryl F. Zanuck Alfred Newman Richard Day Thomas Little Gwen Wakeling Roger Heman Sr. Arthur C. Miller James B. Clark Nathan H. Juran Philip Dunne Richard Llewellyn Eugene Grossman Guy Pearce

Actors:

Walter Pidgeon Maureen O'Hara Anna Lee Donald Crisp Roddy McDowall John Loder Sara Allgood Barry Fitzgerald Patric Knowles Morton Lowry Arthur Shields Ann Todd Frederick Worlock Richard Fraser Evan S. Evans James Monks Rhys Williams Lionel Pape Ethel Griffies Marten Lamont

Genre:

Drama

Country: no data

Year: 1941

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At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans (he stern, she gentle) raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.

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Steven Spielberg

Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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In an interview with the AFI, Spielberg explained: “I try to rent a John Ford film… before I start every movie, simply because he inspires me…. He’s like a classic painter, he celebrates the frame, not just what’s inside it.” War Horse (2011), Spielberg’s most painterly, unashamedly old-fashioned film to date, feels particularly indebted to Ford’s lavish melodrama How Green Was My Valley.

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