One Man's Way (1963)
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From at least the 1930s on to the 1970s, the upbeat protestant minister, Reverend Norman Vincent Peale, ministered to the well-heeled and upwardly mobile of the United States from his pulpit at the Riverside church on Fifth Avenue in New York City. At least as positive-thinking as the similarly cheery Dale Carnegie (How To Win Friends and Influence People), his lift-yourself-by-your-bootstraps message of good cheer was perceived as unorthodox by many within the churches he grew up in. After many decades of preaching his message, summed up in his best-selling book The Power of Positive Thinking, he was enshrined as a sort of secular saint. His influence reached to Presidents and corporate heads, and his name became synonymous with a kind of extraverted wholesomeness which has long since vanished. This biopic traces his career in the most respectful possible manner. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Don Murray - Norman Vincent Peale
- William Windom - Rev. Clifford Peale
- Carol Ohmart - Evelyn
- Liam Sullivan - Dr. Gordon
- Ian Wolfe - Bishop Hardwick
- Virginia Sale - Miss Collingswood
- Paul Marin - Feldman
- Ed Peck - Harry the Reporter
- Tom Palmer - Prof. Aiken
- Sharyl Locke - Elizabeth Peale
- Gerald Gordon - Robert Peale Grown
- Vernon Rich - Mr. Melton
- Ann Morgan Guilbert - Receptionist
- Arthur Marshall - Rod Allenberry
- Jon Lormer - John Hellman
- Bryan O'Byrne - Organist
- Joe Hamilton - Elder Thompson
- Diana Hyland - Ruth Peale
- Virginia Christine - Anna Peale
- Veronica Cartwright - Mary
- June Dayton - Mrs. Gordon
- Charles Lampkin - Lafe
- David Bailey - Robert Peale as a Child
- Eddie Ryder - Gas Station Attendant
- John Harmon - Elder Marcus
- Sandra Gale Bettin - Alma
- Butch Patrick - John Peale
- Tom Skerritt - Leonard Peale Grown
- Bing Russell - Tom Rayburn
- Ed Prentiss - Mr. Boardman
- Geraldine Wall - Mae Michaels
- Jean Carson - Woman Who Shoots Husband
- Hope Summers - Mrs. Thompson
- Director(s):
- Denis Sanders
- Writer(s):
- John W. Bloch, Eleanore Griffin
- Producer(s):
- Frank Ross
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