Director: John Ford

Writer: Laurence Stallings

From stories by: Irvin S. Cobb (stories by)

Keywords: Drama

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Jane Darwell	Actor	15-Oct-1879	13-Aug-1967	The bird woman in Mary Poppins
Stepin Fetchit	Actor	30-May-1902	19-Nov-1985	Professional black stereotype
Mae Marsh	Actor	9-Nov-1895	13-Feb-1968	The Birth of a Nation
Henry O'Neill	Actor	10-Aug-1891	18-May-1961	Anchors Aweigh
Slim Pickens	Actor	29-Jun-1919	8-Dec-1983	Tough cowboy actor
John Russell	Actor	3-Jan-1921	19-Jan-1991	Lawman
Russell Simpson	Actor	17-Jun-1880	12-Dec-1959	The Grapes of Wrath
Milburn Stone	Actor	5-Jul-1904	12-Jun-1980	Doc Adams on Gunsmoke
Arleen Whelan	Actor	1-Sep-1914	7-Apr-1993	Castle in the Desert
Charles Winninger	Actor	26-May-1884	27-Jan-1969	Show Boat
Grant Withers	Actor	17-Jan-1904	27-Mar-1959	American character actor

REVIEWS

Review by brian engel (posted on 4-May-2008)

This film is another of John Ford's enigmatic and alegorical pieces which, along with The Man Who Shot Libery Valance, presents a Russian doll of many layers of symbolism which can be stripped away or apprecaited at face value, as you choose. However you chose to view these films and on whatever level you appreciate them they entertain, provoke and challenge the viewer. The Sun Shines Bright lies somewhere in Deepst Fordland, between Liberty Valance and Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird It's a place where I would like to live, for a while, to smoke on verandas and sip juleps on a porch swing on hot sultry nights, listening to mockingbirds and watching fireflies. Confront the angry townsfolk (who are forever stirred up by the misdeeds of whoever's being held in the cells) on the steps of the town hall/courthouse/sheriffs office, perhaos waving a Civil War pistol until they disperse, muttering, back into the saloons and houses from whence they came...its one of my favourite cliches that may or may not have happened somewhere, sometime, and if its not true it ought to be!

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