A poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town, Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley is a paean to a more innocent age, published in Penguin Modern Classics. HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY. The movie that John Ford made from it surpassed the book in many ways, and slipped up once or twice. At the lake you'll find a pedal boat and a row boat for your enjoyment. "How Green Was My Valley" has been unfairly targeted over the years as the film that did not deserve the Oscar for Best Picture of 1941. Growing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons - at the kitchen table, at Chapel and around the pit-head. A poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town, Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley is a paean to a more innocent age, published in Penguin Modern Classics Growing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons - at the kitchen table, at Chapel and around the pit-head. A poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town, Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley is a paean to a more innocent age, published in Penguin Modern Classics. How Green Was My Valley [Richard Llewellyn] on Amazon.com. How Green Was My Valley (1941) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The film, based on the best-selling 1939 novel of the same name by Richard Llewellyn, was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and scripted by Philip Dunne. How Green Was My Valley is Richard Llewellyn's bestselling -- and timeless -- classic and the basis of a beloved film. I saw this first during World War II, and it made such an impression upon me that I had to go back time after time. Movies. The author had claimed that he based the book on his own personal experiences but this was found to be untrue after his death; Llewellyn was English-born and spent little time in Wales, though he was of Welsh descent. '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. How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 drama directed by John Ford. The lake is stocked each spring with bass, bluegill and catfish. Up into the Singing Mountain and Down Where the Moon is Small, published in 1960 and 1966 respectively, detail Huw's emigration and life in Argentina. The movie is a standard good, good directing, acting, plot, script, storytelling and technical aspects. But the movie kind of lacks a style, and it can be a very forgettable movie because of it. In Richard Llewellyn’s final novel, the third sequel to How Green Was My Valley, Huw Morgan is now a successful businessman in Patagonia, but with financial corruption and political instability rife, he returns to his native Wales after many years.