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The British Viewpoint
W hen Billy Graham asked Dick Ross to produce “ Souls In Conflict,” with a London setting Ross knew he’d need British assistance if the film was to be authentic. For that assistance Ross went to Leonard Reeve of Anglo- Scottish Pictures, London and A. W. Goodwin Hudson, also of London. The Rev. Mr. Hudson is the Vicar of St. Mary Magdalene’s and an astute authority on religious films. Vicar Hudson was the technical advisor for the film and made a continual ap praisal of both the story and script from the viewpoint of British acceptance. The Vicar, a warm evangelical, believes Billy Graham put the gospel back into the mainstream of British life. Observed the Vicar: “ For the most part we merely baptized, married and buried our people. Or as one wag put it, ‘hatched, matched and dispatched’ them. They just never came to us for direction as to a vital relationship with Christ. Now we are hoping that this new film will continue to do the work that Mr. Graham started in Harringay last winter.” Vicar Hudson has a kindly answer for those who criticize Christian films. “ A knife you can say is a terrible thing. In the hands of an assassin it is a weapon of death. In the hands of a surgeon it is an instrument of life. So it is with films. I can assure you that I would not use them if I didn’t get results.”
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