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...successive one-night stands in Philadelphia and Boston last week, Gehrmann and Wilt went after each other again, and Parson Richards went after 15 feet. With the officials behaving impeccably this time, there was no doubt whatever about the results...
Stars in My Crown (MGM) nostalgically recalls life in a small Southern town at the turn of the century. Its rambling, episodic story, adapted by Joe David Brown from his own novel, follows the town parson (Joel McCrea) through a typhoid epidemic, a friendly joust with a local skeptic (the late Alan Hale), a feud with a young, unproven doctor (James Mitchell), a brush with the Ku Klux Klan on behalf of a Negro parishioner (Juano Hernandez...
...movie is as corny, and often just as pleasantly mellow, as a fond recollection of barefoot boyhood-which is what it is. The period and locale come alive in fine sets and props; Actor Hernandez and Dean Stockwell (as the parson's ward) give unusually good performances; the script furnishes some tangy color (e.g., the visit of a brassy medicine show), and Director Jacques Tourneur flavors the corn with the poetic zeal of a French chef...
...haywagon, rolling along in tree-dappled sunlight, Director Tourneur evokes a full-blown atmosphere of carefree rural living. Equally expert when the film bursts into melodrama, he uses only two graphic shots to concentrate all the impact of a burning-cross visitation by the Klan. When the parson later heads off a lynching by an appeal to the mob's better instincts, the situation is strictly bogus; yet the scene plays with sure effectiveness...
Immediately the twelve charter members were rounded up. Besides Coburn, Anderson, and Rosane, Frank Parson, Archy Spencer, Tom Sherwood, Red Ekinner, Sid Clark, Phil Clark, Rollie Algrant, Nick Arundel, and Dalt Griffith made up the Association. When Algrant graduated Phil Scullin took his place in the group, since formed as a club of twelve...