Saturday, August 11, 2018

The Crowning Experience (1960), 6

Inspired by the accomplishments of Mary McCleod Bethune, who made and sold so many sweet potato pies that, with her earnings, she established many schools for the under-privileged, this ...
1h 42min | Biography, Drama, Musical | 22 October 1960 | Color, fs
Directors: Marion Clayton Anderson, Rickard Tegström
Stars: Muriel Smith, Ann Buckles, Louis Byles

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052715/
Watched online, good print.

12 songs in the Soundtracks, no performers listed. Most are sung by MS, perhaps dubbed.

IMDb trivia: "Loosely based on the life of Mary McLeod Bethune, the black American educator."

1st of 3 film credits for this production company, last in '73.

Perhaps I missed something, but the "answer" claimed by the poster seems to be that people need to serve god rather than be slaves to tyrants. But no clear plan for how to make that happen. Seems like a repackaging of JC, attempting to reach out to people of all races, all faiths on all continents. Definitely anti-communism; Lenin is mentioned by name.

Moral Re-Armament, dir. Anderson & Tegstrom; 6