Joel McCrea

Ellen Drew

Dean Stockwell

Alan Hale

Lewis Stone

James Mitchell

Amanda Blake

Juano Hernández

Charles Kemper

Connie Gilchrist

Ed Begley

Jack Lambert

Arthur Hunnicutt

Marshall Thompson

James Arness

Polly Bailey

Chuck Courtney

Adeline De Walt Reynolds

Edmund Glover

Jessica Grayson

Victor Kilian

Patricia Miller

Rhea Mitchell

Norman Ollestad

Carl Pitti

Harry 'Snub' Pollard

Ben Watson

Wilson Wood

Eula Guy

Frank Mills

Jessie Arnold

Al Bain

Margaret Bert

Helen Brown

Matilda Caldwell

Robert Cherry

Bill Clauson

Fred Datig Jr.

Helen Eby-Rock

Ralph Hodges

Jimmie Horan

Dick Johnstone

Al Kunde

Baron James Lichter

Mathew McCue

Philo McCullough

Jimmy Moss

Patsy O'Byrne

Frank Pharr

James Pierce

Alice Richey

Buddy Roosevelt

Phil Schumacher

Tex Terry

Jack Tornek

Connie Van

Joe David Brown

Margaret Fitts

Jacques Tourneur

Dolph Zimmer

Gene Ruggiero

Standish J. Lambert

Walter Plunkett

Edwin B. Willis

Sydney Guilaroff

Sergei Petschnikoff

William H. Wright

Adolph Deutsch

Alfred E. Spencer

Charles Schoenbaum

Eddie Imazu

Cedric Gibbons

Jack Dawn

Douglas Shearer

Bobby Tucker

Warren Newcombe

Drama

Western

Stars in My Crown

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

United States of America

English

Yellow backs in fancy dress.

Stars in My Crown is directed by Jacques Tourneur and written by Joe David Brown and Margaret Fitts. It stars Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, Alan Hale, Lewis Stone, James Mitchell, Amanda Blake and Juano Hernandez. Music is by Adolph Deutsch and cinematography by Charles Schoenbaum.

It's post the American Civil War and we are in the Southern town of Walsburg. Preacher Josiah Gray (McCrea) arrives in town and promptly settles down to become an important part of the community. Soon he will come face to face with two killer diseases, that of typhoid and racial hatred.

First off it should be noted that some plot synopsis' and poster art are off base, McCrea's preacher is not a gun toting dude willing to use guns to further his causes, it's a brief scene flecked with humour. Also note that the Ku Klux Klan is not mentioned in this, the gang at the centre of the race hatred here are called The Night Riders (Nightriders perhaps?). 

A veer from what we know as the norm for a Tourneur movie, this only really suffers from being a little too precious and naturally dated in its depictions of small town church life and racial bigotry. But that said, it's such a warm involving picture that is performed and directed with skill, it's almost impossible not to feel good about things come the closure of the play.

Story thrives on community strengths and weakness, delicately blending both to show optimism on offer in spite of human fallibilities. The battle between faith and medicine in nicely played, refusing to force feed one or the other, whilst the key scene as the racial hatred reached its vilest peak is potent and hits all the right notes.

Cliches and stereotypes are within, perhaps unsurprisingly for the era of film making, while Hernandez's black character is written as far too passive to be utterly comfortable. It also would have been nice to have had more of Charles Kemper's ebullient medicine show host, but complaints are small here and Stars in My Crown is a worthy and comfort food kinda picture. 7/10

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