Retrospective 2014

How Green Was My Valley

SO GRÜN WAR MEIN TAL
John Ford
USA 1941
118 min
V'14

Awarded with five Oscars the family saga HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY follows 60 year old Huw Morgan who leaves the by coalmining devastated valley and remembers his childhood. The mine fed and split the clan, defamation burdened his family, strikes and exploitation formed the lives of the miners. Impressively and with a lot of local color the movie based on Richard Llewellyn’s book describes the tough life of simple men at the end of the 19th century in South Wales.

Credits
  • Barry Fitzgerald - Mr. Gogarty
  • Roddy McDowall - Joe Carraclough
  • Maureen O'Hara
  • Walter Pidgeon
  • Anna Lee
  • John Loder
  • Sara Allgood
  • Patric Knowles
  • Morton Lowry
  • James Monks
  • The Welsh Singers
  • Donald Crisp - Mr. Morgan
  • Philip Dunne
  • Arthur C. Miller
  • Eugene Grossman
  • James B. Clark
  • Alfred Newman
  • Richard Day
  • Nathan Juran
  • Gwen Wakeling
  • «How Green was my Valley» von Richard Llewellyn
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
35 mm
bw
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