The First Legion
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Date: January 01, 1950 to February 01, 1951
Dates Note: 1951
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United States
Place of Origin: United States
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Color: B&W
Silent: No
Based On: The play written by Emmet Lavery
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Preservation funded by the Louis B. Mayer Foundation and the Carl David Memorial Fund for Film Preservation
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UCLA Festival of Preservation 2016Description:
At a Jesuit seminary in California, an aged brother who has been bedridden for years has a holy vision and walks again. While the community celebrates a miracle and pilgrims and souvenir-sellers flock to the seminary, the circumstances arouse a questioning spirit in thoughtful Father Arnoux (Charles Boyer). Made prior to the series of romantic melodramas that defined Douglas Sirk’s reputation, The First Legion is well matched to the director’s sensibility in its combination of sincerity and skeptical distance. The discussion of weighty spiritual matters is leavened by William Demarest as an irreverent monsignor.
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