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"Gary Cooper - Jess Birdwell"
"Dorothy McGuire - Eliza Birdwell"
"Anthony Perkins - Josh Birdwell"
"Richard Eyer - Little Jess Birdwell"
"Robert Middleton - Sam Jordan"
"Phyllis Love - Mattie Birdwell"
"Peter Mark Richman - Gard Jordan (as Mark Richman)"
"Walter Catlett - Professor Quigley"
"Richard Hale - Purdy"
"Joel Fluellen - Enoch"
"Theodore Newton - Major Harvey"
"John Smith - Caleb Cope"
"Marjorie Main - the widow Hudspeth"
"Edna Skinner - Opal Hudspeth"
"Marjorie Durant - Pearl Hudspeth"
"Frances Farwell - Ruby Hudspeth"
"WHAT FUN YOU'LL HAVE...AND WHAT A FAMILY! YOU'LL FEEL AS IF YOU ARE A PART OF IT...OR WOULD LIKE TO BE! (re-release print ad - all caps)"
"It Will Pleasure You in a Hundred Ways!"
"Try FRIENDLY PERSUASION: It's Powerful!"
"When You Looked At Jess Birdwell YOU LOOKED UP"
"Jess is a big man and he walks the Indiana earth in a big way... a man of few words and many strengths... a man born with the gift of laughter and the knack for love, a power for good, a man who doesn't hold with killing. But now Jess faces a big decision -- to keep faith with what he lives by -- or to fight for what he loves... Only so great a theme could make so great a motion picture!"
"Anthony Perkins, the most exciting screen discovery since James Dean!"
"Pat Boone, the sensational Dot Recording artist, can be heard singing the big hit title-song, "Friendly Persuasion""
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.