Count Three and Pray

A pastor with a shady past moves into a rural town just after the Civil War.

Cast

Van Heflin

as Luke Fargo

Joanne Woodward

as Lissy

Philip Carey

as Albert Loomis

Raymond Burr

as Yancey Huggins

Allison Hayes

as Georgina Decrais

Myron Healey

as Floyd Miller

Nancy Kulp

as Matty Miller

James Griffith

as Swallow

Richard Webb

Kathryn Givney

Reviews

John Chard

The Punching Preacher. Count Three and Pray is directed by George Sherman and written by Herb Meadow. It stars Van Heflin, Joanne Woodward, Raymond Burr, Phillip Carey and Allison Hayes. A CinemaScope/Technicolor production, music is by George Duning and cinematography by Burnett Guffey. At f...

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