TV Guide: Irving Pichel

Listing: How Green Was My Valley

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:00:00 -0500

Fri Nov 20 08:00 PM FMC

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Trailer Addict — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The story is told through the eyes, and with the voice-over narration of Huw Morgan (Roddy McDowall), now a middle-aged man leaving the mining town of Cwm Rhondda, recalling the events that most impressed his younger self. The boy Huw is played by Roddy, but the voice-over is that of actor Irving Pichel, who is never seen in the film. His first memories are of the marriage of his brother, Ivor (Patric Knowles), and the burgeoning, unspoken, and ill-fated romance of his sister, Angharad (Maureen O'Hara) with the new preacher, Mr. Gruffydd (Walter Pidgeon). Because of the forbidden nature of the romance, Angharad marries another man, whom she later divorces, and Mr. Gruffydd leaves his church in disgust after being subjected to untrue town gossip - his romance with Angharad is never consummated, nor do they ever marry. Still too young to work in the local coal mine like his father, Gwilym (Donald Crisp), and his five older brothers, Huw senses the seriousness of an imminent strike by the

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Trailer Addict — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Based on the works of Zane Grey, The Mysterious Rider follows a cowboy helps homesteaders who were cheated out of money they put down for land.

Video: Quicksand -- (Movie Clip) Money Talks

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Mechanic Dan Brady (Mickey Rooney) takes a phone call then a threat from arcade owner Nick (Peter Lorre) in this critical scene from director Irving Pichel's Quicksand, 1950.