3 Review(s)

The film dissolves to show young Huw (Roddy McDowall), the youngest child of Gwilym Morgan (Donald Crisp), walking home with his father to meet his mother, Beth (Sara Allgood). His older brothers, Ianto, Ivor (Patric Knowles), Davy, Gwilym Jr and Owen all work in the coal mines with their father while sister Angharad (Maureen O'Hara) keeps house with their mother. His childhood is idyllic, the town is beautiful (the mountainside not yet overrun with coal slag), and the household is frugal but warm and loving. Huw is smitten when he meets Brownyn (Anna Lee), but she is engaged to be married to his oldest brother, Ivor. At the boisterous wedding party Angharad meets the new preacher, Mr Gruffydd (Walter Pidgeon), and there is obvious mutual attraction.