Today’s movie is a period drama with a scene that happens on October
10. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
CHRISTY
Sheltered and naïve Christy
Huddleston leaves her comfortable home to teach at a mission school at Cutter’s
Gap in the Great Smokey Mountains of Tennessee. She has to walk seven miles
through the mountains to get there. Christy meets Dr. Neil MacNeil when he has
to perform a dangerous operation on an injured man. She reaches the mission and
meets Rev. David Grantland, his sister Ida and Miss Alice, a Quaker who runs
the mission. On October 10, 1912 [21:07
to 32:46] Christy begins teaching at the school and is appalled by the students
poverty, ignorance and smell. Her heart is touched by Mountie O’Toole, a little
girl who can’t or won’t speak, but after visiting Mountie’s family and
realizing the depth of the problems faced by the community, Christy almost
gives up and goes home. Traveling with David to another church, Christy ends up
in a river. They stop up at Dr. MacNeils cabin, where he lets her wear a dress
that belonged to his late wife. He was sponsored by some New York doctors who
came to Cutter’s Gap to hunt and later sent him to medical school, but he
returned to the area. When moonshine is found hidden under the school, David
tells the US Marshalls, leading to an argument with Dr. MacNeil. David’s
anti-liquor sermon does not go over too well, but Christy becomes friends with
Fairlight Spencer. Lundy Taylor, an older and disruptive student finally leaves
school when Christy tries to discipline him and her efforts to get him to
return are unsuccessful. Lundy’s father, Birdseye Taylor tries to disrupt the
harvest celebrations, but is stopped by a gun-wielding Miss Alice. He then
threatens the students. Miss Alice confesses to Christy that she had a child
out of wedlock, who later died. The students stay away from the school out of
fear, but starting with Fairlight Spencer’s kids they start to return. Then the
school is damaged in a fire set by Birdseye and his gang and Christy is
injured. She is about to give up and leave in despair when Mountie O’Teele
starts to talk and Christy decides to stay.
A fascinating film. It conveys a
positive spiritual message, which is rare However, the film is only a pale
reflection of the fantastic book that is its source material.
Date given in film at 31:33 on the blackboard
Runtime – 1 hour 50 minutes
Released – April 3, 1994
Tyne Daly as Alice Henderson
Randall Batinkoff as Rev. David Grantland
Tess Harper as Fairlight Spencer
Stewart Finlay-McLennan as Dr. Neil MacNeill
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2014.
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