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The film opens with the adult Huw [Hugh] packing some books and clothes in his mother's shawl, which prompts him to recollect his lost childhood. He describes his stern father, played by Donald Crisp, and reveals how the coal slag had not begun to blacken the beauty of his village. Wage cuts by the mine owners, prompt the sons to talk of unionization and the father describes it as "socialist nonsense" and will have none of it; this eventually leads to the sons departing for America to find their fortune. Near the end of the film, Huw suffers paralysis of his frozen legs which he got from saving his mother from a fall into an icy pond. It stars Walter Pidgeon as Mr. Gruffydd and Maureen O'Hara as Angharad Morgan. Based on Richard Llewellyn's novel of the same name, FTP, give this 1941 Best Picture Winner that garnered John Ford his third Best Director Oscar.
The film opens with the adult Huw [Hugh] packing some books and clothes in his mother's shawl, which prompts him to recollect his lost childhood.
{How Green Was My Valley}