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Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999)
The Story of a Great Man
I grew up in Washington DC , just a few blocks from the major U S seminary of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. This was Father Damien's order. Many of the priests and brothers I met there had been stationed on Molokai. Although he had been dead for many many years, his spirit and memory were very much still alive there. For some reason I never knew about his movie until just recently. I see where many reviewers have scored it very low. I can that since it is not great cinema art etc.However, I judge it only by how much it tells me about St. Damien and how many tears I shed watching. There were many.
George Washington Slept Here (1942)
Great play terrible movie
Perfect example of how to turn a very good stage play into a disaster of a movie. On stage, the characters were the opposite. They rewrote the husband's part to the wife and vice versa. It didn't begin to work. Jack Benny was horribly miscast.