VCI Entertainment presents "THE ROAD TO LOURDES & OTHER MIRACLES OF FAITH" --- (Dolby digitally remastered) --- Loretta Young (January 6, 1913 - August 12, 2000) was an Academy Award winning American actress --- Young made as many as seven or eight movies a year and won an Oscar in 1947 for her performance in "The Farmer's Daughter" --- The same year she co-starred with Cary Grant and David Niven in "The Bishop's Wife", a perennial favorite that still airs on television during the Christmas season.

Moving to television, she hosted and starred in the well received half hour anthology series "The Loretta Young Show" --- Her "sweeping" trademark appearance at the beginning of each show was to appear dramatically in various high fashion evening gowns --- She returned at the program's conclusion to restate to the viewer the moral of the story just seen. (Young's introductions and conclusions to her television shows, which were widely satirized at the time --- Her program ran in prime time on NBC for eight years, the longest running prime time network program ever hosted by a woman up to that time --- Young has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame -- one for motion pictures, at 6104 Hollywood Blvd., and another for television, at 6141 Hollywood Blvd (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Released to honor the 150th Anniversary of the apparitions at Lourdes -- Directors Rudolph Maté and Richard Morris.

1. "THE ROAD" -- featuring Loretta Young, Robert Brubaker, Joseph Cuby and Vinctor Francen --- Loretta Young stars as a spoiled American in Paris diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor --- Filmed entirely in France in 1959, the inspirational film was an episode of the Emmy Award winning series "The Loretta Young Show".

2. "THREE, AND TWO PLEASE (SISTER ANN'S CHRISTMAS)" -- featuring Loretta Young, Rachel Ames, Pat Lawless and Eugene Martin --- A heart warming story opens as Loretta Young portrays Sister Ann, head nurse in a busy hospital who works hard to make this a merry Christmas for two of her more difficult patients -- episode originally aired on December 16, 1956.

3. "SISTER ANN" -- featuring Loretta Young, Claude Akins, Donna Jo Boyce and Eleanor Moore --- What happens when Sister Ann (Loretta Young) decides to contribute her tiny fortune to a building fund for Mercy Hospital, her contribution goes to much more than just building an additional hospital floor -- episode originally aired on January 1, 1959.

4. "FAITH, HOPE AND MR. FLAHERTY" -- featuring Loretta Young, J. M. Kerrigan, Virginia Christine and Renny McEvoy --- Sister Ann makes an investment with money that isn't hers and brings big problems with it -- episode originally aired on May 8, 1960.

SPECIAL BONUS FEATURES:
1. Scene Selection
2. Trailers
3. Text Features: The 67 cures at Lourdes recognized as miracles by the Church; The Prayer of Bernadette
4. Christopher Lewis, Loretta Young's son, interview on the making of the Road to Lourdes
5. Linda Lewis, Loretta Young's daugher-in-law, on the continuing miracles of the Road to Lourdes
6. Classic TV Commericals

Great job by VCI Entertaiment --- looking forward to more Nostalgic Collections --- order your copy now from Amazon or VCI Entertainment where there are plenty of copies available on DVD, stay tuned once again for top notch releases --- where they are experts in releasing long forgotten films and treasures to the collector.

Total Time: 200 mins on DVD ~ VCI Entertainment ~ (12/04/2007)