Word: angharad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relationship of Huw to his family. His innocent eyes watch his Godfearing, authoritarian father (Donald Crisp) turn a deaf ear to the rumblings of 19th-Century labor disputes; his honest, hardworking brothers forced by cheap labor to quit the mine and emigrate to the U.S.; his beauteous sister Angharad (Maureen O'Hara) marry the mine owner's son after the village cleric (Walter Pidgeon) stoically refuses to have her share his poverty; his good mother (Sara Allgood) bear the family disintegration with humility and courage...
...proportions that a boy would recall. The drubbing that Prizefighter Dai Bando (Rhys Williams) and his craven crony (Barry Fitzgerald) administer to Huw's priggish schoolteacher is a masterpiece of comic justice. The viciously pious bigotry that is determined to make something out of the innocent relationship of Angharad and her minister is stinging social satire...
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