Stars in My Crown
"Take Your Choice...Either I Speak...Or My Pistols Do!"
1950 · 1h 30m · APPROVED
Western
Directed by
Jacques Tourneur
Overview
An orphaned man recalls his upbringing with his aunt and her husband, the parson, in a small Western town during the Reconstruction.
Director and cast
- Jacques Tourneur Director
- 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.
- Amanda Blake as Faith Radmore Samuels
- Juano Hernández as Uncle Famous Prill
- Charles Kemper as Prof. Sam Houston Jones
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