How Green Was My Valley

“Rich is their humor! Deep are their passions! Reckless are their lives! Mighty is their story!”

Huw Morgan (Roddy McDowall) is the youngest son in a proud Welsh mining family, a boy with a head for books growing up among men who go down the pit every day. At the dawn of the twentieth century a strike splits the household, with the older sons demanding better pay and their father, Gwilym (Donald Crisp), unwilling to rock the boat. John Ford tells it as Huw's memory, a valley and a family looked back on from a distance.