Drama ·Western · United States of America · 1950 · 1h 30m

Stars in My Crown

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Director
Jacques Tourneur
Cast
Joel McCrea as Josiah Doziah Gray Ellen Drew as Harriet Gray Dean Stockwell as John Kenyon Alan Hale as Jed Isbell Lewis Stone as Dr. Daniel Kalbert Harris, Sr. James Mitchell as Dr. Daniel Kalbert Harris, Jr.
Crew
Charles Schoenbaum — Director of Photography Gene Ruggiero — Editor Adolph Deutsch — Original Music Composer Margaret Fitts — Screenplay Joe David Brown — Novel William H. Wright — Producer
Tagline

"Take Your Choice...Either I Speak...Or My Pistols Do!"

Synopsis

An orphaned man recalls his upbringing with his aunt and her husband, the parson, in a small Western town during the Reconstruction.

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Mood & Themes
small townbased on novel or booknarrationpastorcontagion spreadlast will and testamentracismorphannephewlynch mobscience vs religionpost civil war
Key Collaborators
Jacques Tourneur Director Charles Schoenbaum Director of Photography Gene Ruggiero Editor Adolph Deutsch Original Music Composer Margaret Fitts Screenplay Joe David Brown Novel William H. Wright Producer Walter Plunkett Costume Design
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