Gregory Peck
Father Francis Chisholm
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The Keys of the Kingdom is a 1944 American film based on the 1941 novel The Keys of the Kingdom by A. J. Cronin. The film was adapted by Nunnally Johnson, directed by John M. Stahl, and produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
The Keys of the Kingdom: Directed by John M. Stahl. With Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Rose Stradner. A young priest is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish.
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The Keys of the Kingdom is a 1941 novel by A. J. Cronin. Spanning six decades, it tells the story of Father Francis Chisholm, an unconventional Scottish Catholic priest who struggles to establish a mission in China. Beset by tragedy in his youth, as a missionary Chisholm endures many years of hardship, punctuated by famine, plague and war in ...
- A. J. Cronin
- 1941
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A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which ...
John M. Stahl's epic drama The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) is a force of nature. It's grand scope covers a priest's life from childhood to old age over the course of a steady 137...
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- John M. Stahl
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- Gregory Peck
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The Keys of the Kingdom falters only in its two-dimensional performance by Vincent Price, as Father Chisholm's boyhood friend and fellow Catholic, whose worldliness and careerism never hide a smugness that accompany his rapid rise through the Church hierarchy, and does more than hint that the less spiritual you are, the easier you play the ...
