The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
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Cast & Crew.
Charles Winninger
Judge William Pittman Priest
Arleen Whelan
Lucy Lee Lake
John Russell
Ashby Corwin
Stepin Fetchit
Jeff Poindexter
Russell Simpson
Dr. Lewt Lake
Ludwig Stössel
Herman Felsburg
Francis Ford
Feeney - Old Backwoodsman
Paul Hurst
Army Sgt. Jimmy Bagby
Mitchell Lewis
Sheriff Andy Redcliffe
Grant Withers
Buck Ramsey
Milburn Stone
Horace K. Maydew
John Ford
Director
Dorothy Jordan
Lucy Lee's Mother
Elzie Emanuel
U.S. Grant 'You Ess' Woodford
Laurence Stallings
Writer
Irvin S. Cobb
Writer
Henry O'Neill
Joe D. Habersham
Slim Pickens
Sterling
Victor Young
Composer
James Kirkwood
General Fairfield
Archie Stout
Cinematographer
Jack Murray
Editor
Ernest Whitman
Pleasant 'Uncle Plez' Woodford
Trevor Bardette
Rufe Ramseur
Eve March
Mallie Cramp
Hal Baylor
Rufe Ramseur Jr.
Jane Darwell
Aurora Ratchitt
Ken Williams
Maydew's Henchman
Clarence Muse
Uncle Zack
Mae Marsh
GAR Woman at the Ball
Wilbur Mack
Party Guest at Ball (uncredited)
Jack Perrin
Townsman (uncredited)
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The Sun Shines Bright is a 1953 American Comedy-Drama Western film directed by John Ford, based on material taken from a series of Irvin S. Cobb "Judge Priest" short stories featured in The Saturday Evening Post in the 1910s, specifically "The Sun Shines Bright", "The Mob from Massac", and "The Lord Provides".
Ford had adapted some of the same material in 1934 in his film Judge Priest. That film originally had a scene depicting an attempted lynching of Poindexter (and Priest’s condemnation of the act), but it was cut by 20th Century Fox. The omission was one of the reasons Ford loosely reshaped the Cobb stories two decades later as The Sun Shines Bright for Republic Pictures, this time including Judge Priest's defusing of the mob determined to lynch a young black character named Woodford. In both films, Stepin Fetchit plays the part of Judge Priest's assistant, Poindexter. Ford often cited The Sun Shines Bright as his favorite among all his films, and in later years, it was championed by critics such as Jonathan Rosenbaum and Dave Kehr, who called it "a masterpiece".