Regie:
Henry KingCamera:
Edward CronjagerMuziek:
Sol KaplanActeurs:
Susan Hayward, William Lundigan, Rory Calhoun, Barbara Bates, Gene Lockhart, Lynn Bari, Ruth Donnelly, Alexander Knox, Richard Wilson, Kathleen Lockhart (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
This film is set in the Georgia Blue Ridge Mountains, where country preacher Lundigan and his city wife, Hayward, settle down in a small community. A neighbor, Barbara Bates, is stricken with fever and, in her delirium, calls for her wild but loving beau, Calhoun. Against the wishes of the girl's father, Calhoun shows up and is nearly the recipient of an angry fist. Lundigan keeps the peace by taking some children on a picnic. When Knox, the town atheist, finds that his children were taken along, he goes after the preacher. Lundigan's faith is temporarily shaken when Knox drowns in a nearby lake. Later an epidemic strikes and, by preaching the word of the Lord, Lundigan gives the townsfolk the strength to survive. After three years in the community, Lundigan and Hayward pack up and head for another town. This sentimental piece of Americana is very enjoyable. The tempestuous Hayward liked director King, who treated her with kid gloves and was to become her favorite helmsman, but she resented being costarred with Lundigan, a B-film leading man. While on location outside of Dawsonville, Georgia, Hayward got absorbed in taking some snapshots of the breathtaking scenery of Amicolola Falls. She was backing up while taking the photographs and didn't notice that she was about to step into space and fall into a 729-foot gorge. Studio chauffeur Will Gray spotted her and, in seconds, darted to her side to catch her at the last second before the actress plummeted to certain death. Fox promoted this film into a big hit, particularly in the South; Georgia governor Herman Talmadge was given an engraved copy of the script and this led to the state senate voting Hayward "an adopted daughter of Georgia." (officiële tekst van distribiteur)
(meer)Acteurs
Susan Hayward
USA
Beste films:
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Aanval op de postwagen (1951)
De ongetemden (1952)
William Lundigan
USA
Beste films:
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Dodge City (1939)
Pinky, de witte negerin (1949)
Rory Calhoun
USA
Beste films:
The Blue and the Gray (1982) (serie)
Het uur van de weerwraak (1956)
A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950)
Barbara Bates
USA
Beste films:
All About Eve (1950)
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
Johnny Belinda (1948)
Gene Lockhart
Canada
Beste films:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Madame Curie (1943)
Lynn Bari
USA
Beste films:
Love Is News (1937)
Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Ruth Donnelly
USA
Beste films:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
Alexander Knox
Canada
Beste films:
The Last Place on Earth (1985) (serie)
The Longest Day (1962)
Reach for the Sky (1956)
Richard Wilson
USA
Beste films:
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Kathleen Lockhart
Groot Brittanië
Beste films:
Love Crazy (1941)
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
A Christmas Carol (1938)
Jean Inness
USA
Beste films:
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
The Story of Ruth (1960)
The Gunfighter (1950)
Frank Tweddell
Pakistan
Beste films:
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)