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[Starring] Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara
with Donald Crisp, Anna Lee, Roddy McDowall

Richard Llewellyn's saga about the daily life, aspirations, and economic struggles of a large Welsh mining family.
This award-winning film is another of John Ford's faithful adaptations from well-known books (The Informer and The Grapes of Wrath which preceded it were both taken from well-known novels). Most of the dialogue comes almost word for word from Richard Llewellyn's pages.
Though set in Wales, the film was made in the San Fernando valley in California, where Darryl Zanuck, the producer, constructed at a cost of $145,000 an exact replica of a Welsh mining village, complete with colliery and tip.