A schoolteacher comes to a new town and finds herself caught up in the town's problems and disputes.A schoolteacher comes to a new town and finds herself caught up in the town's problems and disputes.A schoolteacher comes to a new town and finds herself caught up in the town's problems and disputes.
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Frank Shields Sr.
- John 'Jack' Matthews Jr.
- (as Frank Shields)
Fred Kelsey
- Mr. Crowder
- (as Fred A. Kelsey)
Horace B. Carpenter
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Lester Dorr
- Noble Hotel Manager
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Edward Eggleston(uncredited)
- Robert Lee Johnson
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaEdward Pawley's only child, Martin H. Pawley, played one of Mickey Rooney's classmates. This was the only movie in which he ever appeared - he never got interested in the entertainment business, and eventually became an accountant.
- Quotes
Mary Evans: I'm not only a teacher. I'm your friend.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hollywood Comedy Legends (2011)
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Decent Drama With Some Interesting Themes
This is a decent low-budget drama with some interesting themes, and it also includes solid performances by Anne Nagel and a young Mickey Rooney. It ties together several plot lines in a way that works rather well, and although most of the characters remain one-dimensional, the overall situation is interesting enough to hold your attention.
Nagel plays a strong but sensitive schoolteacher who arrives in a new town just as feelings are running high due to a strike by the local dairy farmers, who aren't getting the price they want for their cows' milk. Rooney plays one of the students, a cynical outcast with a father who is a shell-shocked former war hero. These issues would probably have struck a chord in a 1930s audience, and to some degree the ideas are still of some relevance now.
The story that develops moves a little unevenly, and eventually it gets a little predictable, which keeps it from being a better movie overall. But it never loses your interest, and it's not bad at all for such an inexpensively-made feature.
Nagel plays a strong but sensitive schoolteacher who arrives in a new town just as feelings are running high due to a strike by the local dairy farmers, who aren't getting the price they want for their cows' milk. Rooney plays one of the students, a cynical outcast with a father who is a shell-shocked former war hero. These issues would probably have struck a chord in a 1930s audience, and to some degree the ideas are still of some relevance now.
The story that develops moves a little unevenly, and eventually it gets a little predictable, which keeps it from being a better movie overall. But it never loses your interest, and it's not bad at all for such an inexpensively-made feature.
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- Snow Leopard
- Sep 5, 2005
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- Also known as
- Forgotten Hero
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- Runtime1 hour 2 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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