Journey into Light

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Journey into Light
Journey into Light poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Stuart Heisler [1]
Written bystory:
Anson Bond
screenplay:
Stephanie Nordli
Irving Shulman
Produced by Joseph Bernhard
Anson Bond
Starring Sterling Hayden
Viveca Lindfors
Thomas Mitchell
Cinematography Elwood Bredell
Edited by Terry Morse
Music by Paul Dunlap
Emil Newman [2]
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date
  • September 28, 1951 (1951-09-28)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Journey into Light is a 1951 [3] American crime film noir directed by Stuart Heisler and starring Sterling Hayden. [4] [5]

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Plot

John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in eastern USA, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife drunkenly interrupts a sermon, then despondent after her suicide. [6] [7]

Burrows travels to Los Angeles for a fresh start, but ends up on skid row and arrested for apparent public intoxication. A skid-row con man, Gandy, finds him a bed at a flop house, while a street preacher, Doc Thorssen, and daughter Christine take him to a local mission.

Christine is blind. She falls in love with Burrows, enjoying his discussions of the spirit and the soul but knowing little of his past. One day she is struck by a streetcar and knocked unconscious, causing Burrows to once again question his faith.

He ultimately accepts the Lord's will and is offered a better place to live and preach. Burrows decides he is better suited to the mission, with Christine by his side.

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