Review of The People

ABC's "Movie of the Week" truly captured my attention with this film, which had Kim Darby and William Shatner. The star-power was secondary to the story here, and I fell in love with the concepts of The People. Imagine my surprise when just a couple of years later my literature textbook in grade school contained one of the Zenna Henderson stories on which this movie was based. I looked up her printed work, which in even a university library was confined to one or two hardback volumes, and enjoyed learning more about this very down-to-earth outer space idea that she developed with so many connected tales. I loved the warm heart that pulsed underneath the sci-fi framework. Jeremy Francher is a character I will remember forever. I'm glad an old country doctor, played by Shatner(!), could save him ... with a little help!