The Sun Shines Bright (Blu-ray)
JUDGE BILLY PRIEST...the only man who ever called Mallie Crump a Lady
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 26, 2013
- Originally Released: 1953
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Charles Winninger, Arleen Whelan, John Russell & Stepin Fetchit | |
Performer: | Francis Ford, Paul Hurst, Mitchell Lewis, Grant Withers, Ludwig Stössel, Milburn Stone, Dorothy Jordan & Slim Pickens | |
Directed by | John Ford | |
Edited by | Jack Murray | |
Screenwriting by | Laurence Stallings | |
Screenplay by | Laurence Stallings | |
Composition by | Victor Young | |
Art Direction by | Frank Hotaling | |
Story by | Irvin S. Cobb | |
Produced by | John Ford & Merian C. Cooper | |
Director of Photography: | Archie Stout |
Entertainment Reviews:
69%
AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 483
Rating: C --
A heavy mix of mushy sentimentality and low-brow comedy.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A marvelously entertaining film, laid back and effortlessly told, despite the social commentary and intertwining subplots.
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Combustible Celluloid
Director John Ford made this corny, over-sentimental Deep South melodrama between The Quiet Man and Mogambo. Shame on the great man.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 5/5 --
Nostalgic for a world he never knew and which never really existed, progressive-minded and a little reactionary at the same time, innately sad for the passing of an era, deeply humane, and, yes, with a dash of utterly arbitrary beefcake.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Product Description:
John Ford's remake of his 1934 Will Rogers vehicle, JUDGE PRIEST, combines three Irvin S. Cobb stories about the kindly Kentucky magistrate William Priest, played by Charles Winninger. Set in 1905 Kentucky, it focuses on the judge's battle for reelection against Yankee prosecutor Horace K. Maydew (Milburn Stone). Despite the judge's popularity, it's possible that his generosity and sense of justice may cost him the election. First he tries to persuade the eminent General Fairfield (James Kirkwood) to admit that he's kin to Lucy Lee (Arleen Whelan), whose questionable background makes her a subject for ridicule. Next he faces down an angry lynch mob accusing (with extremely thin corroborating evidence) a black man, U.S. Grant Woodford (Elzie Emanuel), of raping a young white girl (Allene Roberts). The frustrated vigilantes, dispersed by the gun-wielding judge, vow vengeance at the polls. One of the director's personal favorites, THE SUN SHINES BRIGHT is filled with Ford's typical low comedy and fine performances from the ensemble cast.
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- Sales Rank: 78,429
- UPC: 887090058209
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