How Green Was My Valley
Rich is their humor! Deep are their passions! Reckless are their lives! Mighty is their story!
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 Ford
- Signature
- Drama · Craft · Tension
- Worldwide
- $5M
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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.
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Box Office & Release
How Green Was My Valley returned 6.0× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $800,000
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $5M
- Release date
- Oct 28, 1941
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- Welsh, English
- Country
- United States of America
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