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The Light in the Forest is a 1958 American Western historical fiction drama film based on a novel of the same name first published in 1953 by American author Conrad Richter. The film was produced by Walt Disney Productions and stars Fess Parker, Joanne Dru, James MacArthur and Wendell Corey. Though it is a work of fiction and primarily features ...
The Light in the Forest: Directed by Herschel Daugherty. With Fess Parker, Wendell Corey, Joanne Dru, James MacArthur. A young white man who spent his whole life raised by Native Americans is sent to live with his birth family and must learn to fit in with people he was taught to hate.
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- Adventure, Drama, Family
- Herschel Daugherty
- 1958-07-08
The Light in the Forest is a novel first published in 1953 by U.S. author Conrad Richter. Though it is a work of fiction and primarily features fictional characters, the novel incorporates historic figures and is based in historical fact related to the mid-1700s in colonial America .
- Conrad Richter
- 1953
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During the exchange phase, the Delaware tribes surrender their white captives to the British forces. Among the whites returning to civilization is Chief Cuyloga's adopted son, True Son, formerly known as Johnny Butler. With a heavy heart, Chief Cuyloga parts with his son and asks him to obey his white family once Johnny becomes a white man again.
The Light in the Forest. Rating: NR. Release Date: July 8, 1958. Genre: Classics, Drama, Family, Live Action. 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 ...
- Wendell Corey
As noted in news items and publicity for the film, The Light in the Forest was James MacArthur's second film. Disney signed him after seeing his first film, The Young Stranger (see below). MacArthur, the adopted son of Helen Hayes and Charles MacArthur, was a student at Harvard at the time, and his contract stated that he would work only during ...
The Light in the Forest. An Army scout (Fess Parker) helps a white youth (James MacArthur) raised by Indians to return to the 18th-century civilization of his own people.
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