How Green Was My Valley

Details

Instance of

film

Publication date

1941, 1 September 1942, 28 October 1941, 29 January 1942

Part of

National Film Registry

Director

John Ford

Composer

Alfred Newman

Based on

How Green Was My Valley

Genre

drama film

Awards

Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black and White, National Board of Review: Top Ten Films

after a work by

Richard Llewellyn

aspect ratio (W:H)

4:3

assessment

Bechdel test

box office

2400000

capital cost

800000

cast member

Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowall, Barry Fitzgerald, Sara Allgood, John Loder, Patric Knowles, Richard Fraser, Rhys Williams, Ethel Griffies

color

black-and-white

country of origin

United States

director of photography

Arthur Charles Miller

distributed by

20th Century Studios, Netflix

distribution format

video on demand

duration

118

film editor

James B. Clark

filming location

Malibu

FSK film rating

FSK 12

has characteristic

film based on a literary work

narrative location

Wales

nominated for

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Academy Award for Best Film Editing, Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black and White, Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score, Academy Award for Best Sound

OFLC classification

G

original language of film or TV show

English

producer

Darryl F. Zanuck

production company

20th Century Studios

production designer

Richard Day

review score

7.9/10, 93%, 88/100, 7.7/10

screenwriter

Philip Dunne

title

How Green Was My Valley

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