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US Mall 1 - Stars in My Crown
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List Price: $19.98
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Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Starring: Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, Alan Hale, Lewis Stone
Directed By: Jacques Tourneur
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Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303072593
Format: Black & White
ISBN: 6303072593
Label: MGM (Warner)
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Release Date: 1994-04-25
Running Time: 89
Studio: MGM (Warner)
Theatrical Release Date: 1950-05-11
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Summary: Stars in my crown
Comment: We paid for movie and we have NOT received it yet. Two weeks over due
The company has been SOOOO gracious they offered to send a pamphlet to order another movie. It looks like I have been ripped Off. I don't know who to go throught to get my money back for a movie I never received. Dallen Cox
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Summary: AMERICA'S 'How Green Was My Valley'
Comment: -That is what I heard historian William K. Everson call this film; once seen never forgotten. Not on DVD?. It DOES show up on TCM.
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Summary: A Quality Movie
Comment: When I was growing up, my father would sing the hymn "Stars in my Crown" -the theme song from his favorite movie. I never had the chance to see the movie until after he had passed away and when I finally had the chance to see it I was thrilled. This movie grabbed at my heart. Each of the characters are so rich, you almost know them. You struggle right along beside them. You will experience their laughter, their pain, their anger, their shame and ultimately their hope. I cannot recommend this movie highly enough. It is certainly one for all the family to see from the youngest to the oldest. Rarely is such a quality movie made anymore. I too wish I could give it more than a 5 star rating.
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Summary: And it's still not on DVD... :(
Comment: Thank God for Turner Classic Movies channel otherwise I may not have seen this gem. It helps to check the classics schedule on their website sometimes months in advance to record movies that are not out on DVD and overpriced/unavailable on VHS.
This story of redemption is one of McCrea's best movies. McCrea was a natural - he practiced what he preached even in real life. Married to the same woman for more than 50 years, he gained the reputation of an honest business-man who made his fortune in real estate.
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Summary: A Gem
Comment: Orson Welles' definition of movies as a "ribbon of dreams" helps account for cinema's special hold on human consciousness. To return to a film that we may remember seeing as children is more than revisiting the past: it's reexperiencing the actual moment of wonder that was ours the first time we saw the film.
"Stars in My Crown" is a film that has stayed with me since I saw it at Rockford, Illinois' proud Coronado Theater over 50 years ago. It's a first-rate "B" movie by a director who excelled at making such pictures--Jacques Tournier. I suspect that my lifelong attraction to the movie had more to do with the star (Joel McRae, as a tough yet gentle preacher) and the hymn providing the title (after seeing the movie I began to search every church hymnal for "Stars in My Crown," usually with disappointing results) than with the director's resourceful style (only in recent years have I become aware of Tourneur as a creative filmmaker, thanks to Scorcese's praise of him).
The film's achievement is to combine pastoral elegy (it foregrounds the narrator's memory of a nostalgic time and community) with singular realism in its portrayal of race relations in the South. In fact, it "humanizes" the Klan while making them redeemable. In the film's remarkable climax they're transformed by the power of the "Word" from murderous, rampaging brigands into chastened stars in the preacher's crown.
But even with its inflammatory racial theme, the more interesting subtext is the story's representation of the conflict between science and religion. The preacher and doctor, in effect, become engaged in rivalry for the town's affections. When the doctor stems the typhoid epidemic, he's embraced by the town as its new hero. Ultimately, however, it is the preacher who reclaims his flock when he identifies the source of the biological plague and then administers to the souls of those affected by the even more threatening disease of racial hatred.
Apart from narrative specifics, "Stars in My Crown" rises to unmistakable archetypal significance. It's a story of initation and experience, life and death, marriages and funerals, and above all of faith in the human spirit. Certainly no title could be more apt for a little movie that, no matter how you cut it, is a real gem.
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