5/23/2023 0 Comments Llewellyn how green was my valley![]() ![]() Is this willful naïveté? Hardly, as director John Ford takes great care to depict the hardships faced by the Morgans and others in their community. And yet, as seen through the eyes of Huw (Roddy McDowall), the youngest of the six Morgan brothers, the valley is also a place of comfort and camaraderie, exaltation and exuberance. An adaptation of the Richard Llewellyn novel about a coal-mining family in 19 th-century Wales, the movie chronicles the work stoppages, hunger, heartbreak, illness, death and separation that define their life together. ![]() There is no logical reason why you should feel as warm and nostalgic as you do at the end of How Green Was My Valley. ![]()
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