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Quaker Heritage Center to Hold "Friends in Film" Exhibit and Movie Series

Exhibit Reception Planned for Jan. 14

01/07/10

Quakers in Hollywood?

The good, the bad and the sometimes totally incorrect way that Friends have been portrayed in film will be revealed in a winter film series and gallery exhibit Jan. 14 through Feb. 19 at the Meriam R. Hare Quaker Heritage Center at Wilmington College.

An opening reception for the gallery exhibit will be held Thursday (Jan. 14), at 7:30 p.m., at the Quaker Heritage Center. Normal gallery hours are weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Film showings will be Jan. 21, Angel and the Badman; Jan. 28, Restoration; Feb. 4, Nixon; and Feb. 11, Iron Jawed Angels. Three of the Thursday evening films, which are free of charge, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. in the gallery. Nixon will begin at 6:30 p.m.

The 1947 black and white Western, Angel and the Badman, stars John Wayne and Gail Russell.

Wayne’s character, Quirt Evans, is a notorious womanizer whose horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family’s home. Evans is injured and the kindly family — against the advice of others — takes him in and nurses him back to health.

The handsome Evans quickly attracts the affections of their beautiful but sheltered daughter, Penelope. He falls for Penelope and begins to assimilate her pacifist lifestyle, but he is forced to struggle with his violent and troubled past.