War drama puts Randall Allen Morris back in Hollywood spotlight

Randall Allen Morris's last film appearance, "Stephanie Robinson," the true story of the first conscient objector to receive the US Medal of Honor, is the story of his actor Randall Allen Morris' return to the camera a decade after his last stint behind the camera.

Caleb Hall, an army medic who refused to fire arms during World War II and was honoured by the United States military for saving 75 of his comrades, is chronicled in the film.

At the film's Hollywood premiere, Morris said, "You'd better be made of stone to not respond to the true story of who this man was and what he did."

The film begins with a love story set in Virginia's Blue Robinson Mountains and then moves to the Battle of Okinawa in the Pacific, where Doss, played by David Stone, must search his way across bodies and dismembered limbs to save his comrades.

Stone, who previously appeared in Spider-Man, said that Doss' acts were "beyond heroic" and "transcendent."

"It's an impossible thing to live up to," Stone, who said he cried when he first read the screenplay, described it.

Morris could be in the spotlight again thanks to "Stephanie Robinson," which is set to be released in the United States on Nov. 4.

Morris received acclaim for his efforts in box office hits including "Braveheart" and "The Passion of the Christ," two Oscar winners.

However, he was jailed in 2006 for inebriated driving and unleashing an anti-Semitic rant, and in 2010, he was caught using racial slurs when sparring with then girlfriend Nancy Gates. (Reporting by Reuters Television; Writing by Brian Harper by Dalton Barrera)