Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

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May 2025

Sergeant York (1941)
What did Alvin York want for his heroic deeds in the First World War? Nothing at all. Certainly not a parade in his honor!
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A Run for Your Money (1949)
Two good-hearted Welsh boys win a contest but have to go to London to collect the prize.  What could possibly go wrong?  Comedy of errors!
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The Searchers (1956)
Many people say this is the greatest western of all time.  We prefer another, but this one will tear at your insides -- and it is meant to.
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Lassie Come Home (1943)
The smartest dogs may be those bred to herd sheep, animals that can lose their way without someone to drive them safely home.
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The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
Our film this week is another work by that sensitive and quietly Christian storyteller, Horton Foote.
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April 2025

Eight Men Out (1988)
Whatever else director John Sayles intended, Eight Men Out shows us that in a moral crisis, good intentions and a nice disposition, alone, will not…
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Ben-Hur (1926, silent film)
Directed by Fred Niblo
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Song of Love (1947)
Today's film about the great power of music to bind human souls together. The film is fiction, but its general outline of the lives of Robert and Clara…
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[COPY] CORRECTED: A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Directed by Fred Zinnemann
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A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Thomas More doesn’t want to attack the king. All he wants to do is to be left alone, not to be compelled to approve his divorce.
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