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How Green Was My Valley

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Brett Alan Dewing
Jul 03, 2013
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How Green Was My Valley is infamous for being the film that beat out Citizen Kane for the 1941 Best Picture Oscar.  Because of this, it has never been given much real attention, just short shrift as an unworthy winner.  Is the film perfect?  No, few are.  But it is a good film in its own right, telling the story of one family's life in a coal mining val…

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