How Green Was My Valley 1941

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: You can never expect to see a film more handsomely played. Read more

Don Druker, Chicago Reader: Expert performances from Donald Crisp, Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, and a host of brilliant character actors enhance a magnificent movie experience. Read more

Ty Burr, Entertainment Weekly: The acting is strong, and Arthur Miller's Oscar-winning photography gives the images a spooky luster, but a little bit of Ford's salt-of-the-earth piety goes an awfully long way. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: Captures an idyll of youth that has been lost to the corrosive practices of modern business. Read more

Kate Cameron, New York Daily News: One of the outstanding film productions of the year. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: If not for the inevitable comparisons to Citizen Kane, How Green Was My Valley might have aged better. Read more

TIME Magazine: Because his recollections ring true, they are certain to evoke a similar nostalgia in all but the most slab-sided of moviegoers. Read more

Tom Milne, Time Out: An elegant and eloquent film, nevertheless, even if the characteristically laconic Fordian poetry seems more contrived here. Read more

Abel Green, Variety: How Green Was My Valley is one of the year's better films, a sure-fire critic's picture and, unlike most features that draw kudos from crix, this one will also do business. Read more