Again Pioneers (1950)

Directed by

William Beaudine

Genre

drama, family

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 12m

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Residents of a town and the poor migrants living in a nearby shantytown clash over their different ways of life. The film shows how the local church tries to bring people together based on Christian values.

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What happens

Again Pioneers (sometimes referred to as Again... Pioneers!) is a 1950 American black-and-white short drama film produced by Paul F. Heard for the Protestant Film Commission. Directed by William Beaudine, it stars Colleen Townsend, Tom Powers, Sarah Padden, and Regis Toomey. The story is set in the fictional town of Fairview and depicts the friction between the middle-class residents and the impoverished migrants who live on the outskirts in a shantytown called "The Patch". The film explores the meaning of the American Dream for both types of residents, and the responsibility of the church to reinstill Christian values of human dignity and freedom into American life. The film was produced at the request of the Home Missions Council of North America. It was not released commercially, but was distributed to 30,000 Protestant denominational churches in the United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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