"How Green Was My Valley" - Lots of Pipes!

[ssjones]

We're watching "How Green Was My Valley" on TCM this evening. What a great film with pipe smoking in many scenes.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033729/

 

[warren]

One of the great movies of all times. No computer generated effects, just great acting all around. And, Maureen O'Hara . . . my heart be still!

 

[ssjones]

What a great film. Robert Osborne shared that movie was filmed on a set built in the San Fernando Valley, CA. They couldn't film on site because of WWII. I'll have to get the book, which covers the life Hugh, not just his time in the town.

 

[rmason]

I just finished watching it on TCM, great movie.

~Ron

 

[crazypipe]

Great movie, and I :D love movies with pipe smoking.

 

[sablebrush52]

I love that movie. I have it on DVD and watch it from time to time. Beautiful music as well.

 

[jbbaldwin]

"I am the child that was, and nobody can say how I felt, except only me."
My favorite line from the book - can't remember if it's in the film or not.

 

[ssjones]

I'm definitely getting the book, it sounds like an epic read.

My grandfather was a Welsh coal-miner who immigrated to the US in 1898, thru Ellis Island (like the sons in the movie). He settled in Pennsylvania and became.....a coal miner, dying at 40 years of age. One of these days, I'll make the trip to Wales.

 

[jbbaldwin]

I recommend the book. The writing is almost song-lyrically beautiful.

 

[aikatal]

Both the movie and book are great-- the book is a "must read" for anyone whose heritage is Welsh.

 

[kcghost]

I am one of the few who don't care for he movie, but MaureenO'Hara, oh my gosh what a beauty!

 

[numbersix]

Thanks Al - I have to see that some day.
Another pipe smoking movie(s): "Miranda" and it's sequel "Mad About Men"
I watched it with my 9 year old daughter who's currently into mermaids - which is the topic of these two comedies. Lots of pipe smoking in both!

 

[rockymtnsmoker]

Watched the Little Mermaid (again) this weekend with my six year-old daughter and for the first time noticed that the prince's advisor/henchthingy smokes a pipe in a least one scene. Bet no recent Disney film has any tobacco use in it. This one is a 1980s vintage.