Robert Mitchum is cast as an agreeable, kindhearted small-town doctor, against type, but he pulled it off beautifully. That man had IT!
Jean Simmons is cast as an impossibly pretentious American with a British accent, who behaves like an aristocrat, full of pride and hubris.
Her pretense is that she is wonderfully grateful for the hicks in Progress, Arkansas for the help that they gave her when she was a tot, sick, undernourished, motherless, and in poverty. Since she has no remembrance of lack, she becomes a liberal democrat thinking that she can decide what all of these hillbilles need, without ever getting to really know any of them. She know best. She gifts thing and cash and proves what socialism does to normal, goodhearted, though not wealthy, people. Greed and avarice begin to take over amongst these generous neighbors.
The debacle makes the news. Why wouldn't it? People love free-money!!! The darling town is overrun with gawkers and people with their hands out.
CUT TO THE CHASE, Mitchum comes in and makes it all better. He believes in work and integrity. He proposes marriage to the princess, even though she has "money"!!!
He is smart on so many levels.
Jean Simmons is cast as an impossibly pretentious American with a British accent, who behaves like an aristocrat, full of pride and hubris.
Her pretense is that she is wonderfully grateful for the hicks in Progress, Arkansas for the help that they gave her when she was a tot, sick, undernourished, motherless, and in poverty. Since she has no remembrance of lack, she becomes a liberal democrat thinking that she can decide what all of these hillbilles need, without ever getting to really know any of them. She know best. She gifts thing and cash and proves what socialism does to normal, goodhearted, though not wealthy, people. Greed and avarice begin to take over amongst these generous neighbors.
The debacle makes the news. Why wouldn't it? People love free-money!!! The darling town is overrun with gawkers and people with their hands out.
CUT TO THE CHASE, Mitchum comes in and makes it all better. He believes in work and integrity. He proposes marriage to the princess, even though she has "money"!!!
He is smart on so many levels.
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