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Stars In My Crown
Stars In My Crown is a 1950 Western film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Joel McCrea as a preacher whose faith tames an unruly town by inspiring the townspeople to change. It was based on the 1947 novel of the same name by Joe David Brown.
Plot
Shortly after the American Civil War, preacher Josiah Gray (Joel McCrea) arrives in the town of Walesburg. He heads straight for the saloon to give his first sermon. When the patrons laugh at him, he pulls out two guns, cowing the men into listening.
More details
| author | Margaret Fitts |
|---|---|
| director | Jacques Tourneur |
| editor | Gene Ruggiero |
| genre | western |
| keywords | alan hale sr. american civil war church civil war freed slave freedman juano hernandez ku klux klan listen lynch lynch mob marshall thompson mica move nothing old man saloon typhoid western saloon |
| musicBy | Adolph Deutsch |
| producer | William H. Wright |
| publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| theme | religion |