Soldiers really sad about Easter coffee shortage
James Dean, Hill Number One, Father Patrick Peyton
By David Helwig, SooToday.com
Fifty-eight years ago, on Easter Sunday, 1951, James Dean made his motion-picture debut.
East of Eden?
No way!
James Dean's first film role was Hill Number One, a little-known made-for-television Easter special produced by Father Patrick Peyton of the Congregation of Holy Cross.
Dean plays the Apostle John in this telling of the Easter story, as related by a military chaplain to a group of caffeine-starved American GIs during the Korean War.
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