Band of Angels

film by Walsh [1957]

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"Band of Angels" is a 1957 film directed by Raoul Walsh. It stars Clark Gable and is based on a novel by Robert Penn Warren. The film is a compromised version of Warren's novel about the antebellum South. Dubbed "The Ghost of Gone with the Wind", the film was a box-office failure.123

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Raoul Walsh
Last films
In Band of Angels (1957) Gable and Walsh teamed again in a compromised version of Robert Penn Warren’s novel about the antebellum south. Dubbed “The Ghost of Gone with the Wind,” the film was a box-office failure. Walsh tackled his most-daunting literary source with The Naked…
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In Band of Angels (1957) Gable and Walsh teamed again in a compromised version of Robert Penn Warren’s novel about the antebellum south. Dubbed “The Ghost of Gone with the Wind,” the film was a box-office failure. Walsh tackled his most-daunting literary source with The Naked…
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Clark Gable
Gone with the Wind, tragedy, and later films of Clark Gable
…end of his career, including Band of Angels (1957), a Civil War potboiler in which he played a plantation owner; Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), a tense submarine adventure in which Gable costarred with Burt Lancaster; and the romantic farces Teacher’s Pet (1958), with Doris Day, and It Started in…
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…end of his career, including Band of Angels (1957), a Civil War potboiler in which he played a plantation owner; Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), a tense submarine adventure in which Gable costarred with Burt Lancaster; and the romantic farces Teacher’s Pet (1958), with Doris Day, and It Started in…
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Sidney Poitier
Hollywood trailblazer
Band of Angels (1957) also examined racial tensions. Set at the time of the American Civil War, the melodrama featured Poitier as a rebellious overseer whose boss (Clark Gable) buys the daughter (Yvonne De Carlo) of a once-wealthy family, who, after her father’s death, discovers…
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Band of Angels (1957) also examined racial tensions. Set at the time of the American Civil War, the melodrama featured Poitier as a rebellious overseer whose boss (Clark Gable) buys the daughter (Yvonne De Carlo) of a once-wealthy family, who, after her father’s death, discovers…
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