Stars in My Crown

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Stars in My Crown ★★★ 1950

McCrea provides a moving performance as the pistol-wielding preacher who helps the residents of a 19th-century small town battle a typhoid epidemic and KKK terrorism. Adapted from the novel by Joe David Brown. 89m/B VHS . Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, Alan Hale, Lewis Stone, Amanda Blake, Juano Hernandez, Charles Kemper, Connie Gilchrist, Ed Begley Sr., James Arness, Jack Lambert, Arthur Hunnicutt; D: Jacques Tourneur; W: Margaret Fitts; M: Adolph Deutsch; Nar: Marshall Thompson.

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