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Forrest Gump
1994
“Rich is their humor! Deep are their passions! Reckless are their lives! Mighty is their story!”
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
October 28, 19411h 58mEN
7.3
454 votes
Overview
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.
Director
John FordWriters
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Status
Released
Original Language
Welsh
Budget
$800K
Revenue
$4.8M
Production Companies
20th Century Fox
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CinemaSerf
7.0Made at the start of WWII, there is something especially potent about this simple story of a Victorian family of Welsh miners. The mine was their economy, their community and patriarch "Morgan" (Donald Crisp) the stern, but loving, father of five sons. It soon becomes clear to his sons that the reliability of the mining industry as a source of income could be waning. Their wages begin to be cut, the job-for-life that they thought they had started to look much less certain. Much to the chagrin of the older man, they are instrumental in calling a strike and that begins a story that challenges an…
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