---
title: 'The Sun Shines Bright (1953)'
type: 'film'
director: 'John Ford'
released: '1953-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 92
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-sun-shines-bright-1953'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046384/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Sun Shines Bright (1953)

1953 · 92 min · Drama · United States


## Synopsis

The Sun Shines Bright is a 1953 American comedy-drama Western film directed by John Ford, based on material taken from a series of Irvin S. Cobb "Judge Priest" short stories featured in The Saturday Evening Post in the 1910s, specifically "The Sun Shines Bright", "The Mob from Massac", and "The Lord Provides".

## Credits

- **Director:** [John Ford](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-ford)
- **Producer:** [John Ford](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-ford), [Merian C. Cooper](https://cinepixo.com/people/merian-c-cooper)
- **Screenplay:** [Laurence Stallings](https://cinepixo.com/people/laurence-stallings)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Victor Young](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-young)
- **Director of Photography:** [Archie Stout](https://cinepixo.com/people/archie-stout)
- **Editor:** [Jack Murray](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-murray)

## Cast

- [Jack Mower](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-mower)
- [Slim Pickens](https://cinepixo.com/people/slim-pickens)
- [Trevor Bardette](https://cinepixo.com/people/trevor-bardette)
- [Jane Darwell](https://cinepixo.com/people/jane-darwell)
- [Stepin Fetchit](https://cinepixo.com/people/stepin-fetchit)
- [John Russell](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-russell)
- [Almira Sessions](https://cinepixo.com/people/almira-sessions)
- [Mitchell Lewis](https://cinepixo.com/people/mitchell-lewis)
- [Milburn Stone](https://cinepixo.com/people/milburn-stone)
- [Paul Hurst](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-hurst)
- [Henry O'Neill](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-o-neill)
- [James Kirkwood](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-kirkwood)
- [Ludwig Stössel](https://cinepixo.com/people/ludwig-stossel)
- [Grant Withers](https://cinepixo.com/people/grant-withers)
- [Francis Ford](https://cinepixo.com/people/francis-ford)

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