Cinema: New Picture, Apr. 11, 1955

A Man Called Peter (20th Century-Fox) is a faithful film adaptation of Catherine Marshall's bestselling biography of her husband, the Rev. Peter Marshall, late chaplain of the U.S. Senate. It begins at his first encounter with God in a Scottish fog, when a voice warned and a root tripped him at the edge of a precipice. It carries him to the U.S. on "orders from the Chief," through Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga., and eventually to Atlanta, where his powerful sermons packed them in and even stood them up on the lawn outside....

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