The Miracle of the Bells (1948) on Netflix
Press agent Bill Dunnigan brings Olga Treskovna's body home to Coaltown, Pennsylvania, for burial. She had asked that the church bells in every part of town ring for three days.
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Plot summary
Bill Dunnigan, a Hollywood press agent, travels by train with the body of the actress Olga Treskovna to Coaltown, Pennsylvania, where she grew up and where she asked to be buried. He was in love with her and never said so. The town's undertaker resents her, because her father's grave was never fully paid for. Dunnigan faces pressure from the undertaker and from the priest of the larger St. Leo's, but he goes instead to Father Paul at the small Polish church of St. Michael's, as Olga wanted. Father Paul shows him the hilltop graveyard where her parents lie. In flashback, Olga is pulled from a nightclub chorus line to stand in for a temperamental star, and Dunnigan, convinced of her talent, persuades the producer Marcus Harris to give her an audition.
Cast
- Veronica Patakyas Anna Klovna
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film ran into distribution trouble in England because of a boycott against the films of screenwriter Ben Hecht, who had made derogatory comments about Britain's presence in Palestine.
- Exterior scenes were shot in Glen Lyon, Pennsylvania, the real mining town the fictional Coaltown was based on, and many of the film's extras were actual miners working for the Glen-Alden Coal Company.
