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Happy as the Grass Was Green, later renamed Hazel's People, is a 1973 American drama film directed by Charles Davis and starring Geraldine Page, Pat Hingle and Graham Beckel. The film is one of the few Mennonite related films ever made.
A 1973 drama film about a Mennonite boy killed in a protest and his friend's visit to his family. The title is a phrase from a hymn and the film explores the contrast between the Mennonite culture and the outside world.
- (70)
- Drama, Romance
- Charles Davis
- 1973-12
Fern Hill Lyrics. Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs. About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb....
Eric is a hippie who goes to a Mennonite town in Pennsylvania for a funeral and finds a way of life that he did not know existed. Intrigued by the lifestyle and attracted to a girl named Hazel, Eric finds himself undergoing a religious conversion.
Happy as the Grass Was Green (1973) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Happy as the Grass Was Green, later renamed Hazel's People, is a 1973 American drama film directed by Charles Davis and starring Geraldine Page, Pat Hingle and Graham Beckel. The film is one of the few Mennonite related films ever made.
The amazing thing about this venue is that the film is anything but a paint-by-numbers whitewash of the ways of modern-day new order Mennonites but an incisive view of a Mennonite family stunned into the reality of the outside world when their son is beaten to death at an unnamed NY university protesting the Vietnam War.
