How Green Was My Valley ( Film ) - wikipedia How Green Was My Valley ( Film ) How Green Was My Valley Theatrical release poster Directed by John Ford Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck Screenplay by Philip Dunne Based on How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn Starring Walter Pidgeon Maureen O'Hara Anna Lee Donald Crisp Roddy McDowall Sara Allgood Narrated by Irving Pichel Music by Alfred Newman Cinematography Arthur C. Miller Edited by James B. Clark Distributed by 20th Century Fox Release date October 28, 1941 ( 1941 - 10 - 28 ) Running time 118 minutes Country United States Language English Welsh Budget $800,000 Box office $2.8 million ( US rentals ) How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 drama film directed by John Ford. The movie, based on the 1939 Richard Llewellyn novel of the same name, was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and scripted by Philip Dunne. The movie features Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, and Roddy McDowall. It was nominated for ten Academy Awards, famously beating Citizen Kane for Best Picture along with winning Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Supporting Actor. The movie tells of the Morgans, a hard - working Welsh mining family living in the heart of the South Wales Valleys during the 19th century. The story chronicles life in the South Wales coalfields, the loss of that way of life and its effects on the family. The fictional village in the movie is based on Gilfach Goch ; Llewellyn spent many summers there visiting his grandfather, and it served as the inspiration for the novel. In 1990, the movie was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being `` culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ''. The Academy Film Archive preserved How Green Was My Valley during 1998. Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 4 Reception 5 Awards 5.1 Academy Awards 5.2 Other awards 6 Adaptations 7 See also 8 References 9 External links Plot The Welsh mining village of How Green Was My Valley The movie begins with a monologue by an older Huw Morgan ( voice by Irving Pichel ) : `` I am packing my belongings in the shawl my mother used to wear when she went to the market. And I 'm going from my valley. And this time, I shall never return. '' The valley and its villages are now blackened by the coal mines that fill the area. A young Huw ( Roddy McDowall ), the youngest child of Gwilym Morgan ( Donald Crisp ), walks home with his father to meet his mother, Beth ( Sara Allgood ). His older brothers, Ianto ( John Loder ), Ivor ( Patric Knowles ), Davy ( Richard Fraser ), Gwilym Jr., and Owen all work in the coal mines with their father, while sister Angharad ( Maureen O'Hara ) keeps house with their mother. Huw 's childhood is idyllic, the town, not yet overrun with mining spoil, is beautiful, and the household is warm and loving. Huw is smitten on meeting Bronwyn ( Anna Lee ), a girl engaged to be married to his oldest brother, Ivor ( Patric Knowles ). At the boisterous wedding party Angharad meets the new preacher, Mr. Gruffydd ( Walter Pidgeon ), and there is an obvious mutual attraction. Trouble begins when the mine owner decreases wages, and the miners strike in protest. Gwilym 's attempt to mediate by not endorsing a strike estranges him from the other miners as well as his older sons, who quit the house. Beth interrupts a late night meeting of the strikers, threatening to kill anyone who harms her husband. While returning home, crossing the fields in a snowstorm in the dark, Beth falls into the river. Huw dives in to save her with the help of the townspeople, and temporarily loses the use of his legs. He recovers with the help of Mr. Gruffydd, which further endears him to Angharad. The strike is eventually settled, and Gwilym and his sons reconcile, yet many miners have lost their jobs. Angharad is courted by the mine owner 's son, Iestyn Evans ( Marten Lamont ), though she loves Mr. Gruffydd. Mr. Gruffydd loves her too, to the malicious delight of the gossipy townswomen, but can not bear to subject her to an impoverished churchman 's life. Angharad submits to a loveless marriage to Evans, and they relocate out of the country. Huw begins school at a nearby village. Abused by other boys, he is taught to fight by boxer Dai Bando ( Rhys Williams ) and his crony, Cyfartha ( Barry Fitzgerald ). After a beating by the cruel teacher Mr. Jonas ( Morton Lowry ), Dai Bando avenges Huw with an impromptu boxing display on Mr. Jonas to the delight of his pupils. On the day that Bronwyn gives birth to their child, Ivor is killed in a mine accident. Later, two of Morgan 's sons are dismissed in favour of less experienced, cheaper labourers. With no job prospects, they leave to seek their fortunes abroad. Huw is awarded a scholarship to university, but to his father 's dismay he refuses it to work in the mines. He relocates in with Bronwyn to help provide for her and her child. When Angharad returns without her husband, vicious gossip spreads through the town of an impending divorce. Mr. Gruffydd is denounced by the church deacons, and after condemning the town 's small - mindedness, he decides to leave. Just then, the alarm whistle sounds, signalling another mine disaster. Several men are injured, and Gwilym and others are trapped in a cave - in. Young Huw, Mr. Gruffydd, and Dai Bando descend with others for a rescue attempt. Gwilym and his son are briefly re-united before he succumbs to his injuries. Huw rides the lift to the surface cradling his father 's body, his coal - blackened face devoid of youthful innocence. Narration by an older Huw recalls, `` Men like my father can not die. They are with me still, real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then. '' The movie ends with a montage of family vignettes showing Huw with his father and mother, his brothers and sister. Cast Walter Pidgeon as Mr. Gruffydd, pastor of the village chapel Maureen O'Hara as Angharad Morgan Donald Crisp as Gwilym Morgan Roddy McDowall as Huw Morgan Sara Allgood as Mrs. Beth Morgan Anna Lee as Bronwyn, Ivor 's wife Patric Knowles as Ivor Morgan John Loder as Ianto Morgan Barry Fitzgerald as Cyfartha, boxing manager Rhys Williams as Dai Bando, boxer Morton Lowry as Mr. Jonas, school teacher Arthur Shields as Mr. Parry, deacon Frederick Worlock as Dr. Richards Richard Fraser as Davy Morgan Evan S. Evans as Gwilym Morgan Jr. James Monks as Owen Morgan Ethel Griffies as Mrs. Nicholas, housekeeper Lionel Pape as Mr. Evans senior Marten Lamont as Iestyn Evans, his son Ann E. Todd as Ceinwen, school girl Clifford Severn as Mervyn Phillips, school bully Irving Pichel as adult Huw Morgan ( the unseen narrator ) Minta Durfee ( uncredited ) Production William Wyler, the original director, saw the screen test of McDowall and chose him for the part. Wyler was replaced by John Ford. Fox wanted to shoot the movie in Wales in Technicolor, but events in Europe during World War II made this impossible. Instead, Ford had the studio build an 80 - acre authentic replica of a Welsh mining town at Brent 's Crags ( subsequently Crags Country Club ) in the Santa Monica Mountains near Malibu, California. The cast had only one Welsh actor, Rhys Williams, in a minor role. Reception How Green Was My Valley maintains a 90 % approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes ; the site 's consensus write - up is, `` Though it perhaps strays into overly maudlin territory, this working - class drama is saved by a solid cast and director John Ford 's unmistakeable style. '' Tim Dirks of Filmsite.org lauded the film as `` one of John Ford 's masterpieces of sentimental human drama. '' While the opinion among the Academy Awards committee that it was 1941 's best picture has been left behind by modern film criticism, How Green Was My Valley continues to be well received in its own right, and in 1990 was added to the American National Film Registry. It is also well known for being Academy Award winning actor and director Clint Eastwood 's favorite movie. Awards Academy Awards Winners Best Picture - Darryl F. Zanuck Best Director - John Ford Best Supporting Actor - Donald Crisp Best Black - and - White Cinematography - Arthur Charles Miller Best Black - and - White Art Direction - Interior Decoration - Richard Day, Nathan H. Juran and Thomas Little Nominations Best Adapted Screenplay - Philip Dunne Best Supporting Actress - Sara Allgood Best Film Editing - James B. Clark Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic Picture - Alfred Newman Best Recording Sound - Edmund H. Hansen Other Awards New York Film Critics Circle Awards : NYFCC Award ; Best Director, John Ford ; 1941. Silver Condor Award for Best Foreign Film at the 1943 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards in Argentina, John Ford, USA ; 1943. 1990 -- National Film Registry. American Film Institute Lists AFI 's 100 Years... 100 Movies - Nominated AFI 's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes : `` Men like my father can not die. They are with me still -- real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then. '' - Nominated AFI 's 100 Years of Film Scores - Nominated AFI 's 100 Years... 100 Movies ( 10th Anniversary Edition ) - Nominated Adaptations How Green Was My Valley was adapted as a radio play on the March 22, 1942 broadcast of the Ford Theatre, with Sara Allgood, Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowell, Maureen O'Hara and Walter Pidgeon. It was also adapted on three broadcasts of Lux Radio Theater : on September 21, 1942, with Allgood, Crisp, O'Hara, McDowell and Pidgeon ; on March 31, 1947, with Crisp and David Niven ; and on September 28, 1954, with Crisp and Donna Reed. A Broadway musical adaptation, entitled A Time for Singing, produced by Alexander H. Cohen, opened at the Broadway Theatre on May 21, 1966. The music was by John Morris ; book and lyrics by Morris and Gerald Freedman, who also served as the director. Cast included Laurence Naismith as Gwillym, Tessie O'Shea as Beth Morgan, Shani Wallis as Angharad and Frank Griso as Huw. See also How Green Was My Valley ( novel ) The Proud Valley The Stars Look Down 1926 United Kingdom general strike English - language accents in film -- Welsh References Footnotes Jump up ^ Some sources credit the narration to Rhys Williams Citations Jump up ^ Solomon, Aubrey ( 1989 ). Twentieth Century Fox : A Corporate and Financial History. Lanham, Maryland : Scarecrow Press, p. 241, ISBN 978 - 0 - 8108 - 4244 - 1. Jump up ^ `` 101 Pix Gross in Millions '' Variety 6 Jan 1943 p 58 Jump up ^ `` NY Times : How Green Was My Valley ''. NY Times. Retrieved 2008 - 12 - 13. ^ Jump up to : `` How Green Was My Valley '' - BBC Radio Wales, www.bbc.co.uk, published February 07, 2009. Retrieved February 06, 2015. Jump up ^ `` Preserved Projects ''. Academy Film Archive. ^ Jump up to : Maltin, Leonard. `` How Green Was My Valley ( 1941 ) - Notes - TCM.com ''. Turner Classic Movies. TCM Interactive Group. Retrieved 4 September 2016. Jump up ^ http://www.venturacountytrails.org/News/0168-MalibuCreekStParkHistory/NewsPage.htm Jump up ^ `` How Green Was My Valley ( 1941 ) on RT ''. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved December 5, 2015. Jump up ^ Dirks, Tim. `` How Green Was My Valley ( 1941 ) ''. AMC. Retrieved December 5, 2015. Jump up ^ Susman, Gary ( February 19, 2013 ). `` Oscar Robbery : 10 Controversial Best - Picture Races -- 1942 : ' Citizen Kane ' vs. ' How Green Was My Valley ' ''. TIME. Retrieved January 26, 2017. Jump up ^ Hathaway, Hashim ( January 25, 2017 ). `` 25 times the Oscars got it wrong ''. Yardbarker. Retrieved January 26, 2017. Jump up ^ `` The 14th Academy Awards ( 1942 ) Nominees and Winners ''. oscars.org. Retrieved 2011 - 08 - 13. Jump up ^ `` Historia de la Asociación de Cronistas Cinematográficos de la República Argentina '' ( in Spanish ). Puestaenescena.com.ar. Retrieved 27 May 2014. Jump up ^ AFI 's 100 Years... 100 Movies Nominees Jump up ^ AFI 's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes Nominees Jump up ^ AFI 's 100 Years of Film Scores Nominees Jump up ^ AFI 's 100 Years... 100 Movies ( 10th Anniversary Edition ) Ballot Jump up ^ A Time for Singing at IDBD accessed 8 - 19 - 2015 External links Wikiquote has quotations related to : How Green Was My Valley ( film ) Wikimedia Commons has media related to How Green Was My Valley. How Green Was My Valley on IMDb How Green Was My Valley at the TCM Movie Database How Green Was My Valley at AllMovie How Green Was My Valley at Rotten Tomatoes How Green Was My Valley at Reel Classics How Green Was My Valley at Film Site web site ; contains plot detail. 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Question: where was how green was my valley filmed
Answer: Santa Monica Mountains near Malibu, California