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| Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: October 28, 1941 |
Starring:
Anna Lee, Barry Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, John Loder, Maureen O'Hara, Patric Knowles, Roddy McDowall, Sara Allgood, Walter Pidgeon, Welsh Singers
Summary:
At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.
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Topically relevant and emotionally overwhelming, John Ford's memory-movie concerns the devastation of a Welsh coal-mining family after mine owners impose cutbacks. [16 Jun 1992, p.6D]
It certainly ranks as one of director John Ford's finest efforts in a long string of outstanding human dramas the director made during the late 1930s and early 1940s. [19 May 1996, p.57]
Ford depicts a working-class solidarity based on morality, tradition, and community; he conveys his nuanced and tender sociology with surprising sound effects and expressionistic tableaux that feature the sort of angles that made Welles famous (and which the younger man borrowed, in turn, from Ford’s Stagecoach).
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Moving and impressive in a big-Hollywood-picture-way.
Its sentimentality is ragged at times, but the overall quilt of the film is well constructed. [09 Apr 1992, p.15]
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