Family Theater: Shadow on the Mountain
Family Theater · January 10, 1951 · 28 min · 4,264 words
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Family Theater presents Dennis Morgan and Mala Powers. On Hollywood, the mutual network and cooperation with Family Theater presents Dennis Morgan in Shadow on the Mountain. To introduce the drama, your hostess, Mala Powers. Thank you, Tony LaFrano.
Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives if we ought to win Peace for ourselves, Peace for our families, and Peace for the world.
Family theatre urges you to pray, pray together as a family. Tonight, family theatre takes great pleasure in presenting Shadow on the Mountain, starring Dennis Morgan as Bill Wyatt. The Washington Territory of 1856 was a wonderful country, plenty of game and abundance of fish and the richest black soil God ever gave a man to work.
Yes, sir. It was pretty close to being heaven. In fact, it kind of seemed that the mountains were reaching up, trying to connect Earth and Heaven, since they seemed so much a part of each other anyway.
It was a good place for a man to bring up a family. The Indians taught us how to kill and cure all the game we needed. We taught them how to use the soil. It was a fine arrangement.
I wish we could have kept it that way. You hear the news? Hi, Jeff. Just some time for dinner. Come on in. Hey, Bill, he's going to be trouble. A lot of trouble I can feel it.
I know. What are you talking about? I'm talking about the governor moving the engines. Moving the inequality? Everybody in town's talking about it. He ain't come right out and said it yet, but we'll shoot.
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is the world's best prayer and the world's prayer book. For in its limitless combinations, It becomes the cry of finite men to an infinite God. Language. Beautiful, this thought, isn't it? Family prayer is beautiful too.
For the family that prays together stays together. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. From Hollywood, Family Theater has brought you Dennis Morgan as the star of Shadow on the Mountain with Nala Powers as your hostess.
Others in the cast were Peggy Weber, Irene Tedro, Ted DiCocia, Herb Vygren, Norman Field, Howard Culver, Herb Lefen, John Sheehan, Antonio Dair. The script was written by Robert Hiwo-Sulliman with music composed and conducted by Harry Zimmerman and was directed for Family Theater by Joseph F. Mansfield.
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