The Valley of Decision
- Drama
- Romance
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.
- Directed by
- Tay Garnett
- Written by
- Sonya Levien, John Meehan
- Based on
- Marcia Davenport
Cast
- Greer Garson
- Gregory Peck
- Donald Crisp
- Lionel Barrymore
- Preston Foster
- Marsha Hunt
- Gladys Cooper
- Reginald Owen
- Dan Duryea
- Jessica Tandy
- Barbara Everest
- Marshall Thompson
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- unrequited love
- 19th century
- wealthy family
- factory
- irish-american
- maid
- 1870s
- pittsburgh, pennsylvania
- labor union
- strike
- workers union
- man in wheelchair
- labor strike
- irish immigrant
- compromise
- family feud
- classism
- upstairs downstairs
- mill
- murder by gunshot
- steel mill
- gun shooting
- negotiation
- union struggle
- labor negotiation
- metallurgy
- steel industry
- pittsburgh steel industry
- strikebreakers
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