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Stars In My Crown
Stars In My Crown
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It gets high marks because of Joel McCrea right off. Then, it is a Western and there is always so much to learn about the early wild days and how towns got started along with laws, rules, regulations and all the rest. I always notice how the buildings of these start-up towns were built one right next to another. One fire takes them all out. I wonder how many times a town was actually re-built from fire losses? Notice too the streets and roads. Good community flick with everyone knowing everyone else and helping each other too. What an interesting way to live and grow up in. You got characters both good and not so good, the Klan, greed, fever, love interest, and a nice, happy ending. Such clean, fun and wholesome entertainment. Even if it is not true to life it can be and restores faith in human-kind just by watching. Warm and fuzzies will visit with you guaranteed. Narrator does an excellent job helping us to get the flick and not work too hard. Pay attention to Uncle Famous and his attitude on life. He lives simply, has all he needs, bothers no one likes everybody and is thankful just to be here. What a role model if there ever was one. This movie shows you what life can be like if we just let it. Good sandwich movie and tasty drink with a snack to follow will keep you happy and content to the satisfying end.
STARS: Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell
89 min | Family, Western | 1950 | Color
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McCrea Classic a Family Must-See!
Stars in My Crown is over 50 years old, yet in it’s humor, it’s message of brotherhood, and it’s depiction of small-town Western America at a time when religion was the true center of everyone’s lives, this film has rarely been equaled!
The story is told through the observations of young John Kenyon (sensitively portrayed by Quantum Leap’s Dean Stockwell, with Daktari’s Marshall Thompson voicing Kenyon as an adult), who lives with Soldier-turned-Minister Josiah Dozier Grey (Joel McCrea, in one of his finest performances) and his wife, Harriet (Ellen Drew). Grey is kind, warm, and totally sincere, with a penchance for telling funny stories with a Message, rather than being ‘preachy’…in short, the kind of Parson who can win hearts, as well as souls! Grey’s congregation includes some of Hollywood’s finest character actors, including Lewis Stone (Judge Hardy) as a crusty old doctor, James Mitchell (Days of Our Lives) as his doubting physician son, Alan Hale (The Adventures of Robin Hood) as a Civil War buddy with a large family (including ‘Matt Dillon’ James Arness!), Amanda Blake (who would costar with Arness in ‘Gunsmoke’) as the schoolmarm, Arthur Hunnicutt (The Big Sky) as a local character nicknamed ‘Chloroform'(!), Oscar-winner Ed Begley as a rich mine owner, and, in a remarkable performance, Juano Hernandez as ‘Famous Uncle Prill’, a Black farmer who experiences with dignity the racism of the time. Director Jacques Tourneur, best-known for his gothic classic ‘Cat People’, shows patience and restraint, allowing the story to build under its own steam, which gives the climaxes (a typhoid epidemic and a Klan near-lynching) an emotional wallop. McCrea’s scene with the incensed Klan members foreshadows Gregory Peck’s confrontation with the lynch party in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, and is truly unforgettable. ‘Stars in My Crown’ is a rich, wonderful film that your family will cherish. It is on the short list of my favorite films, and is one that you can enjoy for years to come!
