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1941 |
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DRAMA
RITES-OF-PASSAGE
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118 |
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Nostalgic recollection of a childhood in a Welsh mining community.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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Film buffs have never quite forgiven John Ford's picture for beating Citizen Kane to the Best Film Oscar for 1941. It is very conventional, a shade prettified, and the Welsh accents are sometimes wildly offbeam. It also contains more than a slight element of Hollywood schmaltz. But it's very handsomely produced and movingly acted.
Like that greater Ford masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath , this is a song of praise to the common man; and it remains impossible to watch without shedding a tear.
Oscars went to Arthur Miller (photography), Richard Day, Nathan Juran and Thomas Little (art direction). Nominated were Alfred Newman (music), E.H.Hansen (sound) and editor James B Clark.
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(pictured right) 
, based on Richard Llewellyn's novel