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The Eve of St Mark is a 1942 play by Maxwell Anderson set during World War II. It later became a 1944 film by 20th Century Fox that featured some of the same actors who repeated their roles in the film.
- Maxwell Anderson
- 1942
The Eve of St. Mark: Directed by John M. Stahl, Irving Pichel. With Anne Baxter, William Eythe, Michael O'Shea, Vincent Price. Hometown boy Quizz West (William Eythe) is one of fewer than 19,000 draftees in 1940. After being familiarized with his fiancée Janet and him, we find Quizz at a gun position fighting off the Japanese along the Philippine shoreline. The situation becomes hopeless for ...
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- Drama, War
- John M. Stahl, Irving Pichel
- 1944-05-22
The poem is based on a supersstitious believe that if a person, on St. Mark's Eve, place himself near the church porch when twilight is thickening, he would behold the apparations of those persons in the parish who were to be seized with any severe disease that year, go into the church. If they remained there, it signified their death; if they came out again, it signified their recovery, and ...
Based on the play The Eve of St. Mark by Maxwell Anderson (New York, 7 Oct 1942).
- John M. Stahl, F. E. Johnston, Irving Pichel
- Anne Baxter
Mar 9, 2024 · The Eve of St. Mark. sister projects: Wikidata item. The Eve of St. Mark is a fragment of a poem by John Keats. It was written in February of 1819, and it is usally assumed to be written about a legend that says that if you watch the church from 11:00 to 1:00 on St. Mark's Eve (April 24), for three years in a row, then on the third year you ...
The Eve of St. Mark. Three soldiers on leave from boot camp journey to New York. One of them, Quizz West (William Eythe), meets and falls in love with a local girl, Janet Feller (Anne Baxter ...
In short, St Mark has become a homey comedy-drama of a farmboy inductee, his family, sweetheart and barracks comrades. It remains almost a Johnny Doughboy documentary.
