Friendly Persuasion (Allied Artists, 1956). (McCormick's Quick Takes On Conscientious Objector Films).Friendly Persuasion PERSUASION. The act of influencing by expostulation or request. While the persuasion is confined within those limits which leave the mind free, it may be used to induce another to make his will, or even to make it in his own favor; but if such persuasion should so far operate on the mind (Allied Artists, 1956). Jess jesse, jess a leather strap placed around each shank of a hawk used for hunting, for the attachment of a leash. Birdwell (Gary Cooper) is a pacifist in William Wyler's translation of Jessamyn West's Civil War novel about Indiana Quakers to the big screen. The actor who defined gun-toting cowboys (High Noon High Noon western film in which time is of the essence. [Am. Cinema: Griffith, 396–397] See : Wild West ) and warriors (Sergeant York) for a generation of viewers beats his sword into a plowshare in this tale of a religious family that will not be sucked into the maelstrom Maelstrom, whirlpool, Norway: see Moskenstraumen. of war. While not a terribly serious film, it provides Hollywood's first real nod to the pacifist strain in Christianity and makes room for a moral deci-sion not to bear arms in an American war. *** |
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