Come to the Stable

I wish to add my opinion about this film--I have watched it and watched for it seasonally since first seeing it on the tiny snowy screen of my parents TV.
It is an enchanting film. In the best traditions of the Christmas films of the 1940s and 1950s. It is a tale of blind faith overcoming a powerful villian who is blocking the path of the faithful. In many ways it does bare a strong resemblance to "Lilies of the Field" and "The Bells of St. Mary"
Knowing that many older films have been lost forever, I hope there is still a good copy available to restore and transfer to DVD soon. This is a charming story with fine preformances, the family can enjoy year after year.

I would buy this DVD if it were available....

My wife has been asking for this movie for years. Growing up, each and every holiday season she, and her family, would sit around the television and enjoy this heartwarming film. If only it were available on DVD! I'd love to fulfill her wish and present it to her this holiday season. Too bad another year will pass without being able to purchase it.

If any of you happen to see it listed in your local TV Guide this holiday season, be sure to give it a chance. I've yet to see it but she tells me it's a great Christmas film.

AS WE AWAIT NOW THE NEW BIOGRAPHY OF THE FOUNDRESS OF REGINA LAUDIS, THIS FREELY FICTIONALIZED VERSION MAY INTEREST SOME

In these very days Ignatius Press is publishing a new biography of Very Reverend Mother Benedict Duss, OSB, the foundress of Regina Laudis Abbey in rural Bethlehem Connecticut, who after the liberation of World War II traveled from the Benedictine Abbey in Jouarre, France to New York and New England, where she did receive welcome reception by artist Lauren Ford of Sheepfold, as mentioned in another review here which relates the true story much more accurately than this fictionalized and romanticized film which was always more of an embarrassment to the real community than a help or a chronicle.

She and the embryonic Benedictine foundation then received a generous donation of land and buildings from industrialist Robert Leather, including a former brass factory and a rather small residence soon converted into monastic cells and chapel which now serves as the men's guest house, as the factory building was converted into the main monastic residence and chapel. Now with their growth into an Abbey, new buildings and centers are developed including the magnificent new Abbatial Church and choir.

As mentioned in the other review, this film, which would be welcome as curiosity in dvd format, was scripted by Claire Boothe Luce, wife of the Time magazine publisher and ambassadress to Rome after her conversion to Catholicism. Her personal ambience and concerns and spirituality and rather quaint and stereotypical perception of life in religious community are herein reflected; yet some true incidents do come through, such as the discarding of a parking ticket in Manhattan by Mother Mary Aline under the understanding it was merely advertising posted under their borrowed windshield wiper, which is said to have been based on true life.

This movie nevertheless serves as a mere shadow puppet playing of the profound reality, which we eagerly await to read through the well-known Ignatius Press and the talented writer (also authoress of the moral theological text Choosing Mercy) who compiled her comprehensive and true biography after close interviews with the Foundress in her final years.