Customer Ratings & Reviews

'How Green Was My Valley' shows the directorial skill of one of Hollywood's most prolifically award winning directors, John Ford. With the help of Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara and a very young Roddy McDowall, Ford achieves a slice-of-life drama about one family's trials and tribulations living in the coal mining region of Wales. The very fact that this is one of filmdom's classic successes to present believably real people and their real life experiences to the viewing audiences proved they could emotionally move those audiences. This is a shining example of movie making that deserves a place in the library of all serious film collectors. Thank you Best Buy for making this Blu-ray disc available to us and at a reasonable price.

This is a older movie that we have not seen and was delighted when I was able to purchase it from BestBuy at a good price so my wife and I can watch it anytime we want.

They literally don’t make movies like this anymore. The story, the acting is of a time when it had to be right. No CGI, no special effects. A must see!

A wonderful black and white film for the ages. They dont write films like this anymore for sure. A great family film and for anyone who loves cinema.

A classic! I was able to snag this Best picture for 5.99! What a deal! I love the finds I get from Best Buy! They never disappoint!

The movie was in excellent quality considering the years passed by, The movie was excellent and got it on a very good price.

Great movie that holds up even today and more stunning on blu ray. Acting is superb and it shows why its a classic

Wonderful transfer of this classic gem! Not your usual John Ford film, but a great film about family and pride.

A masterpiece by John Ford, even better on Blu-ray! Still relevant today!

love these old movies...just wish they would colorize more of them

Would recommend to people who enjoy old movie stars. A must see

The talent that made this movie seems to have been all but lost.

One of the best movies ever made. Great actors and great plot.

A great quality classic film. Excellent video and audio.

Excellent classics film with great black & white contrasts.

I am happy to add this to my growing movie collection.

This movie is a Black & White Classic that beat out Citizen Kane for Best Movie in 1941. The Blu-ray release of this movie offers outstanding audio and visual. This is the third time I have watched this movie and it was more enjoyable this time. The story is about a Welsh coal mining family and is narrated by Roddy McDowell, who plays a young boy in the family. There are numerous stars in this movie such as Maureen O'Hara and Walter Pidgeon and they all turn in magnificent performances. This is an adult family movie and seemed to be very realistic to me. It was filmed in the U.S.A. because World War II was going on in Europe at the time.

How Green Was My Valley is a truly wonderful film. I know that many see it as a paint-by-numbers studio attempt of telling a story that relates to the working class - and they’re not wrong! It’s explores parallels of family duty and fiscal responsibility, love wanted and love lost, all through the lens of a small boy seeing his family change as he grows from boy to man. But that’s it’s true strength that speaks volumes to every generation. Look at it this way... now no one EVER has to make a movie like this ever again!

This is the story of a Welsh mining family, the Morgans, told through the eyes of the youngest son, Huw (played by a 12-year old Roddy MacDowall). The film centers on his struggle toward manhood amid conflicting demands of faith, economics, education and family loyalty in a Wales caught in an irreversible shift from a pastoral to an industrialized society.

This is one of my favorite movies of all time( Best Picture Academy Award). The acting was superb. The greatest Director of all time _ John Ford! Incredible set created in Southern California (Academy Award) because of impending WWII making on location impossible. The extras are worth the purchase as well.