Friday, August 12, 2011

Friendly Persuasion (1956)




Starring Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Marjorie Main, Doug McClure, William Schallert, Peter Mark Richman, Robert Middleton, Helen Kleeb, and Edna Skinner. Directed by William Wyler. The eldest son of a Quaker couple in Southern Indiana if afraid he will be thought of as a coward if he doesn't sign up for military service. He joins the Home Guard and proves his courage when he is wounded during a Rebel raid while his father is able to stay faithful to his religious calling by not killing a Southern soldier when given both a chance and a good reason to do so.

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