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The Mailbox (film)

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The Mailbox
Directed byDavid K. Jacobs
Screenplay byDavid K. Jacobs
Story byFlorence Doyle Putt
Produced byDavid K. Jacobs
Starring
  • Lethe Tatge
  • Rachel Jacobs
  • Rebecca Glade
CinematographyReed Smoot
Edited byJames W. Dearden
Music byMerrill Jenson
Production
company
Distributed byThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Release date
  • 1977 (1977)
Running time
24 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Mailbox is a 1977 American 24-minute short film produced by BYU Motion Picture Studios. The film is available through the Brigham Young University Office of Creative Works on a compilation DVD with other LDS films.[1][2][3][4][5]

Plot

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An old woman's loneliness is amplified as she daily walks to the mailbox, only to find nothing there for her. Her neighbors and the mailman provide some relief, but her family doesn't seem to care.

Cast

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  • Lethe Tatge as Lethe Anderson
  • Rachel Jacobs as Rachel Johnson
  • Rebecca Glade as Sharon Johnson
  • Alan Nash as Mike the Mailman
  • Martha Henstrom as Myra (voice)
  • Winkie Horman as Susan (voice)

Reception

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Considered as among the best known films produced at BYU,[6] and "It is clear that the tragedy is not in the death, but in the emptiness of the mailbox."[7]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Midway Woman Stars In Film", Daily Herald (Utah), p. 24, 7 March 1977. Archive reprint from Newspapers.com
  2. ^ "'The Mailbox' Film Premiers Friday in Midway Town Hall", Daily Herald (Utah), p. 33, May 15, 1977. Archive reprint from Newspapers.com
  3. ^ "The Mormon Media Image" (PDF), Sunstone, 3 (1): 25, November–December 1977
  4. ^ Hall, Airen (October 2012), "Melodrama on a Mission: Latter-Day Saint Film and the Melodramatic Mode", Journal of Religion and Film, 16 (2): 13–15
  5. ^ Brigham Young University Studies, Volume 46. Brigham Young University. 2007. p. 101.
  6. ^ Hunter, James Michael (2012). Mormons and Popular Culture: The Global Influence of an American Phenomenon, Volume 1. ABC-CLIO. p. 26. ISBN 978-0313391675. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  7. ^ Consortium of University Film Centers, R.R. Bowker Company (1986). Educational film/video locator of the Consortium of University Film Centers and R.R. Bowker, Volume 2. R.R. Bowker. p. 1920. ISBN 0835221814. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
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