Journey into Light

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Journey into Light
Directed by Stuart Heisler
Produced by Joseph Bernhard
Anson Bond
Written by Anson Bond
Starring Sterling Hayden
Release dates
  • 1951 (1951)
Running time 87 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Journey into Light is a 1951 American drama film directed by Stuart Heisler and starring Sterling Hayden.[1]

Plot

John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife drunkenly interrupts a sermon, then despondent after her suicide.

Burrows travels to Los Angeles for a fresh start, but takes to the bottle himself and ends up arrested for public intoxication. A skid-row con man, Gandy, finds him a bed at a flop house, while a street preacher, Doc Thorssen, and daughter Christine take him to a local mission.

Christine is blind. She falls in love with Burrows, enjoying his discussions of the spirit and the soul but knowing little of his past. One day she is struck by a streetcar and knocked unconscious, causing Burrows to once again question his faith.

He ultimately accepts the Lord's will and is offered a better place to live and preach. Burrows decides he is better suited to the mission, with Christine by his side.

Cast

See also

References

  1. "Journey Into Light". NY Times. Retrieved 2012-08-24. 

External links

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