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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heather and high hills. John Beal is carefully naive and confused as the preacher himself. The rest of Barrie's characters are animated with a fidelity and attention to detail that only one similar movie, "Great Expectations," has recently equalled. Max Steiner, who is still going strong at this sort of thing, knitted a musical background into the story which quietly manages to take over an important part of the mood-setting on its own. The photography is simple and sane; the scenery alone, is worth the ticket price. "The Little Minister" is no movie to miss...
...through this trial to be patient," he said. "There are few qualities of life that are so important. If you don't let little things disturb you at all, then you get a certain calm and peace of mind about it. That is the sort of thing that is the essence of the administration of justice. Now do that...
...last five years, Principal Harrell has been worrying a good deal about things like that. A twangy, kindly man of 56, raised on a Texas farm, he has become a sort of patriarch to the people living in some of the more dismal patches of West Dallas. Statistics tell part of the West Dallas problem. Spread out along the bottom lands of the Trinity River, it is a dreary settlement of native whites, Negroes and Mexicans jammed into row upon row of one-and two-room shacks -some 25,000 people-mostly without plumbing of any kind. In West Dallas...
Those who pass the examinations receive specialized training and then are assigned to any sort of post at the discretion of State Department officials. If a young foreign service man is not promoted within a period of eight years, he is removed from the service...
...male hubbub. Eventually, her shady morals and mascara notwithstanding, she becomes the wife of Rancher McCrea. The highly involved plot in South of St. Louis, always pretty implausible, moves along at a fast enough clip to look convincing, and most of the principals are old enough hands at this sort of thing to take the handicaps and hurdles without breaking their easy canter...