The War Prayer
With Thomas Dekker, from A Nightmare on Elm Street
Directed by Michael A. Goorjian · Starring Alison Aulakh, Kristen Clement, Thomas Dekker, Emmy Farese · 2007
A modern adaptation of Mark Twain's suppressed story: as a congregation prays for victory in war, a stranger arrives to reveal what that prayer truly asks for.
Mark Twain's once-unpublishable anti-war parable, still cutting in a modern setting.
Outraged by American military intervention in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War, Mark Twain wrote a short story called "The War Prayer" in 1905. Harper's Bazaar Magazine rejected the piece, as did Twain's o
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