One Man's Way

Director: Denis Sanders

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/09/2011
UPC:	0883904249993
Original Release:	1963
Source:	MGM
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[monaural]
Language:	English
Time:	1:45:00
Sales rank:	56,175

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Don Murray	Norman Vincent Peale
Diana Hyland	Ruth Stafford Peale
William Windom	Rev. Clifford Peale
Virginia Christine	Anna Peale
Carol Ohmart	Evelyn Grace
Veronica Cartwright	Mary
Liam Sullivan	Dr. Gordon
June Dayton	Mrs. Gordon
Ian Wolfe	Bishop Hardwick
Charles Lampkin	Lafe
Arthur Peterson Jr.	Instructor
Hope Summers	Mrs. Thompson
Virginia Sale	Miss Collingswood
Rory O'Brien	Leonard Peale as a Child
Mickey Sholdar	Norman Peale as a Child
Paul Marin	Feldman
Hank Stanton	Jack Wilson
Bryan O'Byrne	Organist
Eddie Ryder	Gas Station Attendant
Ed Peck	Harry the Reporter
John Harmon	Elder Marcus
Joe Hamilton	Elder Thompson
Tom Palmer	Prof. Aiken
Sandra Gale Bettin	Alma
Wendy Ferdin	Margaret Peale
Butch Patrick	John Peale
Sharyl Locke	Elizabeth Peale
Gerald Gordon	Robert Peale Grown
Tom Skerritt	Leonard Peale Grown
Vernon Rich	Mr. Melton
Bing Russell	Tom Rayburn
Ann Morgan Guilbert	Receptionist
Ed Prentiss	Mr. Boardman
Arthur Marshall	Rod Allenberry
Geraldine Wall	Mae Michaels
Jon Lormer	John Hellman
Jean Carson	Woman Who Shoots Husband,Woman Who Shoots Husband
David Bailey	Robert Peale as a Child

Technical Credits

Frank Ross

Producer