How Green was My Valley

Résumé du livre

In the year 1941, Twentieth Century-Fox released 43 feature films, among them Blood and Sand, Swamp Water, Sun Valley Serenade, two Charlie Chan mysteries, and a Laurel and Hardy comedy. Towering above all of these was the most honored film of the year, an extraordinary adaptation of Richard Llewellyn's best selling novel of life in a Welsh mining community, How Green Was My Valley. Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and directed by John Ford, How Green Was My Valley became the recipient of five Academy Awards- including Best Director and the coveted Best Picture Oscar- in the same year as The Maltese Falcon, The Little Foxes, and Citizen Kane. Now, fifty years after its release, Philip Dunne's brilliant screenplay for How Green Was My Valley is presented in this handsome new commemorative edition, accompanied by Mr. Dunne's own sharply observed and evocative essay on the film's making and aftermath. In illustrating the workings of the Hollywood studio system in its prime, he clearly details the truly collaborative nature of the filmmaking process. Composed with great wisdom, humor, and poignancy, no better writing on the subject of motion picture production- and screenwriting in particular- has been done at any length. How Green Was My Valley is illustrated with rare stills, many showing scenes shot and then excised from the final cut of the film. As a celebration of the art and craft of screenwriting, this fiftieth anniversary edition of How Green Was My Valley is a book to enjoy, study, and cherish.- dust jacket.