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The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Marcia Davenport's novel quickly became a classic, and it was almost impossible not to make a film classic as well out of such a story with such characters. It is one of Greer Garson's very best impersonations, and she made many wonderful characters, but her rendering of the Scottish lass in America with her worrisome family (with Lionel Barrymore imposing as a crippled and hopelessly embittered father) is endearing to unforgettability. Gladys Cooper as the mother of the Scotts cuts another interesting and lasting character, and Gregory Peck has never been more gentlemanlike.The main drama and heart of the film and story is the controversies related to the industry. It's a heavy industry of steel and the times of the first unions, strikes and demonstrations in the 1870s, and there is a conflict growing to tragic proportions, which is the height of the dramatic saga. It's mainly a women's novel though about women and their power struggle, while the men are just there for sustaining necessity. Greer Garson and Cladys Cooper carry the film and their families on their shoulders, weathering the crises with stubborn decisiveness, and nothing can stop their will from getting through, since they fight against the severest odds and have most to lose and to sacrifice.

"The Valley of Decision" (1945) stars two of Hollywood's finest actors; Greer Garson and Gregory Peck. There are some impressive supporting players as well - unfortunately that is about all it has. Garson stars as a working class Irish woman who goes to work for the wealthy Scott family - all of them are tied to the steel mill, circa late 1800's Pittsburgh. Garson's father (Lionel Barrymore, in a cantankerous performance) has been disabled by the steel mill, blaming the wealthy Scotts. Garson begins to fall in love with one of the Scott sons (a young Gregory Peck). Needless to say, class distinctions keep them apart and then there is a strike at the mill, leading to disaster, and on and on. The movie is primarily hampered by the lack of chemistry between its two main stars. Garson was already 40-ish when she played this role, Peck about 29. Besides the age thing, the two just do not seem to fit together. Garson gives a game effort here, but Peck seems like he would rather be elsewhere. The story at times drags, and much of it is predictable and flat. Gladys Cooper does give a good performance as the loving and kind Mrs. Scott, as does Donald Crisp as the fair-minded and decent Mr. Scott. And there are a few others - Jessica Tandy plays a young snotty society girl who marries Peck and then regrets it. But all of these are not enough to raise this film above anything more than ordinary. It is not remembered as a classic nor should it be. Fortunately, Garson and Peck will be remembered for much better films.

This is a fine historical-era drama, about a Pennsylvania mill-town. In this absorbing drama, which is only one book of a monumental Catholic work by Marcia Davenport, Greer Garson plays a pretty and bright young woman who takes a job in the lavish home of a Pittsburgh steel magnate, played honestly and strongly veteran actor Donald Crisp. Gregory Peck plays one of his sons, the serious one, who is devoted to his father's mill and who works alongside some of the mill workers, including his friend Preston Foster. The father has two other sons--Dan Duryea, who is more desirous of having money rather than of working; and Marshall Thompson, who has turned to alcohol in his unhappiness...There is also a daughter played by the fine actress Marsha Hunt, perhaps one of her best performances. Gladys Cooper plays the matriarch of the family, who befriends Garson, and leaves her her shares in the mill. Garson's father, played with skill by Lionel Barrymore, is an embittered man, who lost the use of his legs in an accident in the mill, and did not want his daughter working for the owners. It is he who begets violence that has tragic consequences. Jessica Tandy plays Peck's wife, a bitter woman; Peck should have married Garsop all along, of course; but the climax of the film is the troubles at the steel mill that are started by the angry workers and the consequences on all concerned of this violent crisis action. There are many finely-developed characters in this long film, but I sense also a fair sense of fatality about the events, intended by the author, against which the attraction of persons, characters and dispositions of Peck and Garson are played, like two rays of sunlight illuminating a dark jungle's zone. Thiis attractive B/W production was directed by Tay Garnett. Marcia Davenport long novel was adapted to the screen by fine scenarist Sonya Levien and John Meehan. The cinematography for the film was the work of Joseph Ruttenberg and Herbert Stothart composed the dramatic score. When I say that the art direction was done by Cedric Gibbons with Paul Groesse, the set decorations by Edwin B. Willis and the costume designs by Irene, I have accounted for the film's very-opulent and vivid production values. In the cast apart from the principals already mentioned, one can see Barbara Everest, Geraldine Wall, Eveline Dockson, John Warburton, Rusell Hicks, Mary Lord, Arthur Shields, young Dean Stockwell, Maru Courier, Lumsden Hare, Connie Golchrist and Anna Q. Nilsson. This is always an attractive and a carefully-considered production, which occasionally seems to me to lack warmth; with a great script, everyone concerned could perhaps have produced a masterpiece. With the one they had, the talents involved produced a memorable adventure that rises on occasion to first-rate dramatic heights. Not to be missed, perhaps. I would love to see it redone, with another fine cast; more than melodrama, it has I believe as a writer, an important dramatic potential.

This MGM 1945 drama brought Greer Garson and Gregory Peck together for the first and only time. They make a terrific acting pair, at the peak of their careers, and ignite the screen with passionate intensity. Filmed in black and white it tells the story of the dispute between a steel manufacturer and the men that work in the mill. Miss Garson plays a pretty maid who takes a job in the lavish home of Pittsburgh steel magnate, wonderfully played by veteran actor Donald Crisp. Peck plays one of his sons, devoted to his father's mill who works diligently alongside some of the mill workers, notably Preston Foster, to bring a newer more modern way of producing better steel. Crisp has two other sons; Dan Duryea, a bit more greedy for the money rather than the work and Marshall Thompson as the youngest son, who tends to drink away his carefree lifestyle. There is also a daughter played by the talented Marsha Hunt in one of her best performances and certainly worthy of a supporting Oscar nomination. By the way Greer did get a Best Actress nomination for this.The distinguished Gladys Cooper plays the matriarch of the family and befriends Greer, leaving her share of the mill. Trouble brews among Greer's family when her father, played by another veteran, Lionel Barrymore, an embittered man having lost the use of his legs in an accident in the mill, stirs up violence that has tragic consequences.Jessica Tandy also gives a dynamic performance as Peck's wife and look for a very young Dean Stockwell as their son. If you like big stars and excellent featured actors along with a compelling story, this is a film for you. Directed by Tay Garnett.