Angel in My Pocket

Angel in My Pocket is a 1969 film starring Andy Griffith and directed by Alan Rafkin. One of three films originally planned by Universal Pictures to star Griffith, it also features Lee Meriwether, Jerry Van Dyke, Kay Medford, Henry Jones, Edgar Buchanan, and Gary Collins. The film has never been released to home video in any format.

The trouble begins almost immediately after he drives into town with his family. A political rally connected with the upcoming mayoral campaign, has erupted into a noholdsbarred, knockdown, dragout brawl, which the sheriff will not stop. Sam attempts to intervene and succeeds only in getting struck in the face, so he drives on to see the church. There he learns that the church sorely needs major renovation, which has not been done in decades because the two founding families, the Sinclairs and the Greshams, have been running a feud for decades and cannot agree on the simplest decision that would benefit the church or on anything else, either. Worse yet, Sam delivers his first sermon by preaching against physical violenceonly to discover most of the brawlers in attendance, including one who blames him for making him vulnerable to someone elses assault.Thereafter Sam spends most of his time trying to improvise to provide for the church needs, speak out on various problems in the community, and, ever more frequently, to run interference between the Sinclair and Gresham families. Each of these endeavors brings him trouble. First, his project to secure a new organ for the church leads to a confrontation with the church board when two town gossips witness him obtaining the organ from a house of Burlesque. Sams brotherinlaw, called Bubba, offers to help the caretaker repair the superannuated boilerbut unknown to Sam, the two men turn the boiler into a still and start producing raisin jack, a variety of moonshine. Next, he takes his children out of school after seeing the appalling conditions therewhich prompts his Bishop to warn him not to interfere in town affairs. Finally, he performs a marriage between a Sinclair and a Greshamand when the secret gets out at a church social after Bubba spikes the church punch with some of his raisin jack, Sam must physically restrain the heads of the families from brawling in the church fellowship hall, and then send everyone home. N

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