1941 · drama
How Green Was My Valley
Directed by John Ford1h 58m1941
Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change. At the dawn of the 20th-century, a miners' strike divides the Morgans: the sons demand improvements, and the father doesn't want to rock the boat.
Our read: How Green Was My Valley (1941) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, measured drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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