How Green Was My Valley

(1941)

★ 7.3 IMDb · 467 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1941

Runtime: 118 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Джон Форд

Cast: Уолтер Пиджон, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, Родди Макдауэлл, John Loder, Sara Allgood, Barry Fitzgerald, Patric Knowles, Morton Lowry

Plot

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.

Life is hard in a Welsh mining town and no less so for the Morgan family. Seen through the eyes of the family's youngest, Huw, we learn of the family's trials and tribulations. Family patriarch Gwilym and his older sons work in the mines, dangerous and unhealthy as it is. Gwilym has greater hopes for his youngest son, but Huw has his own ideas on how to honor his father. Daughter Angharad is the most beautiful girl in the valley and is very much in love with Mr. Gruffydd, who isn't sure he can provide her the life she deserves. Times are hard and good men find themselves out of work and exploited by unseen mine owners.