“JOHN BROWN” AND DEBRA PAGET’S BODY
[Please read] Intransigence rules, but beauty still blooms. This is a video of goodwill and admiration. If you are a true Debra Paget fan, you are likely to categorize any film in which she appears as, exclusively, a “Debra Paget film.” This video offers a few glimpses of an unsung entry in her pantheon. Make the Civil War your dividing line. Miss Paget’s postbellum role of Cathy Reno in LOVE ME TENDER (1956) is here predated by clips from her antebellum appearance as Elizabeth Clark in the Allied Artists picture SEVEN ANGRY MEN (1955). Since the men referred to are not, in fact, uniformly angry, the film’s alternative title of GOD’S ANGRY MAN is more appropriate. The salt of the film is abolitionist John Brown, played credibly—and not for the first time—by talented Raymond Massey, who, interestingly, also portrayed Abraham Lincoln twice on the big screen. John Brown’s sons—among whom number the loyal and romantic Owen (Jeffrey Hunter), the handsome Salmon (Guy Williams, better known for his ZORRO role), and the sensitive John, Jr. (Dennis Weaver, mere months before the launch of TV’s GUNSMOKE and his soon-to-be-famous depiction of gimpy, genial Chester Goode)—pepper the film with personality and meet with different fates, but invariably yield the spotlight to their driven father. Stalwart Jeffrey Hunter was a lucky guy. He appeared in five films with Debra Paget, including: FOURTEEN HOURS (1951), BELLES ON THEIR TOES (1952), PRINCESS OF THE NILE (1954), WHITE FEATHER …
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