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The Emmett Smith Story

Director: Douglas G. Johnson

  • Chris Conkling: Writer
  • Peter G. Czerny: Film Editor
  • Merrill Jenson: Composer
  • Douglas G. Johnson: Director
  • Reed Smoot: Cinematographer
Text from cover: When Emmett Smith has a brain tumor removed, he loses his equilibrium and is told he will never run again. Within a year, the determined high school track coach is once again able to run 20 miles. When Cindy Duncan becomes a student at his high school, Emmett challenges her to do the same--set a goal for leaving her wheelchair to walk to the podium to get her graduation diploma.
True story of Emmett Smith and Cindy Duncan, filmed in Glendale, Arizona, where it happened.
  • Additional details at Internet Movie Database
VC 69, DVD 3083
1979
USA
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
LDS Church Production
Michael LaGuardia, Jane Milmore, Daryle Ann Lindley.
No Obvious Mormon Elements
Private Church Distribution
24 min.

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