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Writers:
Laurence Stallings (screenplay)
Irvin S. Cobb (short stories "The Sun Shines Bright", "The Mob from Massac" and "The Lord Provides")
Release Date:
2 May 1953 (USA) more
Plot:
John Ford weaves three "Judge Priest" stories together to form a good- natured exploration of honour... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 nomination more
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My all-time favourite movie! more (10 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Charles Winninger | ... | Judge William Pittman Priest |
| Arleen Whelan | ... | Lucy Lee Lake |
| John Russell | ... | Ashby Corwin |
| Stepin Fetchit | ... | Jeff Poindexter |
| Russell Simpson | ... | Dr. Lewt Lake |
| Ludwig Stössel | ... | Herman Felsburg (as Ludwig Stossel) |
| Francis Ford | ... | Feeney (Old Backwoodsman) |
| Paul Hurst | ... | Army Sgt. Jimmy Bagby |
| Mitchell Lewis | ... | Sheriff Andy Redcliffe |
| Grant Withers | ... | Buck Ramsey |
| Milburn Stone | ... | Horace K. Maydew |
| Dorothy Jordan | ... | Lucy Lee's mother |
| Elzie Emanuel | ... | U.S. Grant 'You Ess' Woodford |
| Henry O'Neill | ... | Joe D. Habersham |
| Slim Pickens | ... | Sterling, Lanky Backwoodsman |
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90 min | 100 min (video version) | USA:92 min (original theatrical version)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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USA:Approved (MPAA rating: certificate #16222) | Argentina:Atp | West Germany:12 (f) | UK:PG | UK:A (original rating) (cut) | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl
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[the prayer he says at the funeral of Lucy Lee's mother]
Ashby Corwin:
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, / look upon a little child. / Pity her simplicity; / suffer her to come to thee. / Amen.
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'The Sun Shines Bright' is my all-time favourite movie and, though it is now more than 50 years old, there is not one better that has been made since. I first saw it on BBC TV way back and, having taped it for my own use, I never tire of it. The plot, based on stories by Irvin S. Cobb, is beautifully acted out, especially by Charles Winninger as Judge Billy Priest. The evolving drama is most moving. The post-Civil War period setting and atmosphere are perfectly caught by the greatest of all movie directors, John Ford, and the 'moral' (an apparently out-dated word, but still as relevant today as in the 1950s when the movie was made) of this splendid entertainment is still worth marking, learning and inwardly digesting. If Kentucky is still as it is pictured, even if in black-and-white, may I please move there right now?!