Wednesday, August 17, 2005
PEACE?
is a fantasy but a rather good one.
Part bucolic study of a quaker family and part pacifist tract this family story is humorous, informative, a little scary and good at showing the dilemma of a young quaker man and his parents in wartime. The twist for them is that the war is just creeping up to the edge of the family farm.
Got it?
It held me pretty well. It is a William Wyler enterprise and has Gary Cooper and Dorothy Maguire as the parents.
I enjoyed the presence of Robert Middleton who I had forgotten about. A good second level actor who brings good non-religious values to the process.
The very young Anthony Perkins is a little wide eyed as the young man in an identity crisis. It is hard not to see him ripping away that shower curtain.
A small complaint. It has too much mood music and a theme song by Dmitri Tiomkin. Annoying. But that is what they were doing then.
I will give this period piece a 3 out of Netflix5. It held me in the action and I even got a little sniffly at the end but I don't think it will be on my list of repeats.
