MGM
Directed by William A. Wellman
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)
The "voice of God" is heard on the radio one night, at the same time all over the world. The voice breaks in every night for the next seven days, the same amount of time it took to create the world. An all-American family comes to grips with the possibility that it really is God. It's sort of a Christian version of War of the Worlds: mass panic, disbelief, fear that the world is ending. Joe Smith, all-American dad with an expecting wife, gets drunk at the local bar but later regrets it. Joe, Jr, the boy with a newspaper route, is ashamed, but they make up one night at the house of an atheist. Meanwhile, mom, played by that ultimate symbol of puritanism, Nancy Davis, has her baby on the Seventh Day. I thought maybe it would be Baby Jesus, but it was a girl. Hilarious for all the wrong reasons.
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