Light in the Forest [VHS]

Light in the Forest [VHS]
by Herschel Daugherty

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Actor: Fess Parker, James MacArthur, Jessica Tandy, Joanne Dru, Wendell Corey
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Original recording reissued
Running Time: 92 minutes
Release Date: 1997-08-26
Audience Rating: Unrated
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Studio: Walt Disney Video

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Movie Review: Good Disney Movie from the 1950s
Summary: 4 Stars

We bought this movie both for a local historical interest (we live in the area in which it was set) and because we have been collecting G rated movies from our youth. I was somewhat surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Despite being a family movie, it is a reasonably accurate portrayal of the issues confronting both the colonists and the Indians in the mid 1700s without the politically correct whitewashing we would get today (there are bad guys on both sides). A good, solid, family film. It is also interesting to see James MacArthur (Dan-o of Hawaii Five-O) early in his career.

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Summary of Light in the Forest [VHS]

The year is 1764, when a peace treaty between the Delaware Indians and the British requires that all white captives be returned to their people. Johnny Butler (James MacArthur), kidnapped by the tribe when he was a child and renamed True Son, is forced against his will to return to his white family in Pennsylvania. His escort, frontiersman Del Hardy (Fess Parker) and Shenandoe, a beautiful servant girl (Carol Lynley, in her feature film debut), try to help the boy adjust to his new way of life. But the white man's injustice and cruelty drive him back to the Delawares, where even greater dangers await him!

This surprisingly absorbing drama, based on Conrad Richter's novel, tells the tale of the re-assimilation of Johnny Butler, kidnapped as a child by Native Americans (in this 1958 film, of course, called Indians), into the "white man's world." Reluctant and unfamiliar with his biological parents (Jessica Tandy and Frank Ferguson), he's befriended by frontiersman Del Hardy (Fess Parker, basically looking handsome and playing his popular image), also raised by the Indians and now an Army man. Johnny also meets and fancies Shenandoe--his aunt and nasty uncle's indentured servant girl, (a positively luminescent Carol Lynley, 16, in her first role), whose family was massacred by another tribe. While this is an action film set in 1764, made in the still politically insensitive 1950s, it manages not to paint stereotypes. But Light in the Forest is, more than anything, a love story. Shenandoe, terrified of Johnny initially, grows to love him. Johnny, burdened by not feeling he belongs in either world, finds solace in Shenandoe's sweet friendship. (Ages 8 and older) --N.F. Mendoza

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