RKO Radio Pictures
Directed by Irving Pichel
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(VHS, Republic)
The story of an actress from a small Pennsylvania coal mining town getting her big break in Hollywood is told in flashback by her press agent Fred MacMurray. She gets the role of a lifetime as Joan of Arc and is actually quite good. However, when she dies from TB the producer shelves the film. MacMurray returns the body to her small home town. He cooks up a PR scheme to get the film released. It doesn't work, but a real miracle does, well, almost a real miracle. Despite the far-fetched premise, I actually found this quite engrossing. Alida Valli plays the wide-eyed actress part quite well, MacMurray is a natural as a scheming press agent and Lee J. Cobb is well cast as a producer. Only Frank Sinatra as a priest was a little hard to swallow.
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