![]() The good guys, for their part, have mixed feelings about Brown. When he hears the Voice of God, one has little doubt that to him it sounds very much like his own. However, that lack does not seem to cramp his style. ![]() ![]() In his conviction that his every act fulfils the will of God, he at times anticipates Charlton Heston’s Moses, though unlike Moses he doesn’t get any miracles or other Divine help. Massey takes a brilliant part as the religious fanatic, serving a basically good cause by the very worst of means. It has a great cast, including Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan, who rather predictably fall for the same girl (Olivia de Havilland), with Raymond Massey as Brown himself. It follows the lives of several West Point graduates of the 1850s, who are destined all too soon to become famous, as they are posted to Kansas Territory and meet up with the notorious John Brown. An interesting 1940 western, though it takes considerable liberties with history and biography.
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