Come to the Stable

Director: Henry Koster

Overview

In this film, two French nuns come to America in hopes of raising funds for a children's hospital. Travelling to a small New England town presciently named Bethlehem, the nuns befriend eccentric painter Elsa Lanchester, who allows them to use her studio (actually a stable) for their base of operations.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/16/2012
UPC:	0024543848738
Original Release:	1949
Presentation:	[B&W, Full Frame]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:34:00
Sales rank:	16,562

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Loretta Young	Sister Margaret
Celeste Holm	Sister Scholastica
Elsa Lanchester	Amelia Potts
Hugh Marlowe	Robert Masen
Thomas Gomez	Luigi Rossi
Dorothy Patrick	Kitty
Basil Ruysdael	Bishop
Dooley Wilson	Anthony James
Regis Toomey	Monsignor Talbot
Mike Mazurki	Heavy Man
Henri Letondal	Father Barraud
Walter Baldwin	Jarman,Jarman
Tim Huntley	Mr. Thompson
Virginia Kelly	Mrs. Thompson
Louis Jean Heydt	Mr. Newman
Pati Behrs	Nun
Nan Boardman	Nun
Louise Colembet	Nun
Georgette Duane	Nun
Yvette Reynard	Nun
Loulette Sablon	Nun
Ian MacDonald	Mr. Matthews
Jean Prescott	Mrs. Matthews
Gordon Gebert	Willie
Gary Pagett	Johnnie
Nolan Leary	Station Master
Wallace Brown	Sheldon,Sheldon
Dan Jackson	George,George
Edwin Max	Whitey
Russ Clark	Policeman
Robert Foulk	Policeman
Marion Martin	Manicurist

Technical Credits

Oscar Millard

Sally Benson

Oscar Millard	Screenwriter
Sally Benson	Screenwriter
Samuel G. Engel	Producer
Fred Sersen	Special Effects
Roger Heman	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Some may find Come to the Stable a bit too sentimental, but it's also hard to resist. T here's such an undercurrent of warmth and commitment in Stable that most viewers are willing to revel in its rose-colored view of the events that it chronicles. And why not? Stable doesn't pretend to be about reality; it's about faith, and while superficially that faith is identified as being of a particularly Catholic variety, the ultimate message of the film is that deep and abiding faith of any kind is a treasure that can create miracles (however one chooses to define them). Is that a message that everyone will accept as true? Absolutely not. But it's one that almost everyone WANTS to believe is true, and so Stable is a marvelous wish-fulfillment picture that should delight just about everyone. True, Henry Koster's direction does get a bit heavy-handed now and then, and the "fish out of water" aspects of Stable are occasionally pushed a bit too much, but these are relatively minor quibbles. Stable is fortunate to have Loretta Young and Celeste Holm as the leading nuns. Young is simply radiant, as was often her custom, and Holm] is a delightful balance to her. Throw in the amusingly eccentric Elsa Lanchester and a well-done turn from Thomas Gomez and the result is a festive and charming film.