How Green Was My Valley (film)
- Walter Pidgeon: Mr. Gruffydd
- Maureen O'Hara: Angharad Morgan
- Anna Lee: Bronwyn
- Donald Crisp: Gwilym Morgan
- Roddy McDowall: Huw Morgan
- John Loder: Ianto Morgan
- Sara Allgood: Beth Morgan
- Barry Fitzgerald: Cyfartha
- Patric Knowles: Ivor Morgan
- Morton Lowry: Mr. Jonas
- Arthur Shields: Mr. Parry
- Ann E. Todd: Ceinwen
- Frederick Worlock: Dr. Richards
- Richard Fraser: Davy Morgan
- Evan S. Evans: Gwilym Morgan Jr.
- James Monks: Owen Morgan
- Rhys Williams: Dai Bando
- Lionel Pape: C. Evans
- Ethel Griffies: Mrs. Nicholas
- Marten Lamont: Iestyn Evans
Green Was My Valley (English Alternative title: Black Diamonds, How Green Was My Valley or Strong heart ) is an American feature film, directed by John Ford in 1941, based on the novel How Green Was My Valley ( How Green Was My Valley, 1939) by Richard Llewellyn. The work was nominated for ten Academy Awards, won five trophies and claimed thereby in the Best Picture against The Maltese Falcon and Citizen Kane. In 1990, the film from the Library of Congress was considered to be particularly worthy of preservation and incorporated into the National Film Registry directory.
The film is set at the turn of the 20th century in South Wales. It describes the life and the disintegration of a hard-working family.
Action
The story is told from the point of view of Huw Morgan, the mining town of Cwm Rhondda now leaves his mid -forties and the events calls to mind that influenced him as a young man. His first memory contains the wedding of his brother Ivor, the budding romance of his sister Angharad and the new preacher, Mr. Gruffydd. Although he is too young to work in the local coalmine like his father, Gwilym and his five older brothers, he still feels the seriousness of an imminent strike by the deep gap between his father and the other sons, than to leave three of them the family residence. During the tensions of the strike, Huw kept his mother from drowning and then can not use his legs. As Gruffydd Huw supported in his recovery, which he insists with a positive attitude, he suggests that this will only be the first of many challenges he has to face.
German version
The German synchronous processing originated in 1950 in the studios of the Ultra -Film GmbH in Munich under the synchronous directed by Alfred Vohrer. The dialog book authored Bertha Gunderloh. Since it is not his time was the film music of Alfred Newman as an additional track available, the dialogs for the German version were non-inferior with music as in the original version. Theatrical release was in the Federal Republic of Germany on 28 April 1950.
Awards
Oscar 1942
Awards
- Best Supporting Actor ( Donald Crisp )
- Best Art Direction ( Richard Day, Nathan Juran, Thomas Little)
- Best Cinematography ( Arthur C. Miller)
- Best Director ( John Ford)
- Best Film ( Darryl F. Zanuck )
Other Oscar nominations
- Best Supporting Actress ( Sara Allgood )
- Best Editing ( as James Clark)
- Best Original Score (Alfred Newman)
- Best Sound ( Edmund H. Hansen)
1990: inclusion in the National Film Registry
Reviews
" [ S] ehr impressive film. "
" Impressive social time image worth seeing from the 19th century [ ... ]. "
" [ A] tmosphärisch dense saga with lots of local color; impressive social study of high rank [ ...] ( Score: 3 ½ out of 4 stars - exceptional). "