This Wednesday a great movie is going to be on Turner Classic Movies. The movie is "Friendly Persuasion" and I love the movie. The movie will be on at 10 AM on the east coast and it will be at 9 AM for me here in Texas.
Now if you watch "Friendly Persuasion" make sure you watch the 1956 one with Gary Cooper. I will set my alarm and be watching the movie. I think it is one of the all time great movies.
This is the first time I have been to TCM (Turner Classic Movies) web site. It is a great web site. Since I get TCM movies with my cable TV service (Charter) I am going to start checking out the TCM web site.
I see at 0230 hours (EST) and I guess that would be then on the September 15th they are going to have on one of the worst movies of all time and that is "The Hoodlum Priest" which was made in 1961.
The truth is that I do not remember much of the movie. So it might not be a bad movie. My problem is that movie is a "true" story about a real Catholic Jesuit priest. The movie is about Father Charles Dismas Clark.
My high school De La Salle (1955-1959) had him come and preach and talk to us for a retreat. I went to Confession to him.
"Brief Synopsis
Father Charles Dismas Clark, a Jesuit priest in St. Louis, dedicates his life to the rehabilitation of delinquents and ex-convicts. By meeting them on their own terms and talking their language, he wins their confidence and their trust. He is primarily concerned with a young thief, Billy Lee Jackson, recently released from the Missouri State Penitentiary. Father Clark helps clear the boy of some trumped-up charges and then gets him an honest job with a produce market. Billy's rehabilitation is further encouraged by Ellen Henley, a young socialite with whom he falls in love. Meanwhile, aided by Louis Rosen, a successful criminal lawyer, Father Clark raises enough funds to open Halfway House, a shelter for ex-convicts readjusting to civilian life. All goes well until Billy's employer fires him for a theft he did not commit. Embittered, he and a friend, Pio, attempt to rob the produce market. They are caught by one of the owners, and he attacks Billy with a crowbar. The panic-stricken boy grabs a gun and kills him. The police chase Billy to an abandoned house, and he hides there until Father Clark persuades him to surrender. Tried and convicted of murder, he is sentenced to death. Before Billy dies in the gas chamber, Father Clark reassures him by telling him of Dismas, the thief who died on the cross, and of how Christ promised him eternal life. After the execution, Father Clark returns to Halfway House and finds his first client, Pio, drunk and repentant." TCM
I am not sure what year he was at DLS. I think it was 1955. But I was just a young dumb high school kid and as I watched and listened to him talk and mostly cry I was saying to myself this guy is crazy! I was wondering why the brothers would allow a crazy guy to get up in front of us and carry on like that.
My problem with him was his emotional crying and holding up photos.
I am sure the problem was in me. I try and control my emotions. I always want to be in control of them and see a guy crying and carrying on like that was a big turn off for me.
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