How Green Was My Valley

It was quite a coincidence that this was playing on TCM exactly when I got curious about it; this is the movie that kicked Citizen Kane butt at the Oscars that year. No less than 5 wins, including Best Picture. Needless to say, it was disappointing, because with a build-up like that, how could it deliver? Most interesting to me was its insight on socialism, unions, and the changing economy. The narrator, the youngest in his family, is the first that has a chance to go to school, which opens up the opportunities for continuing his education to become a doctor or lawyer in London. Instead, the boy chooses to be a coal-miner like his father. Haha! Good one.