The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)

THE PICTURE THAT TOUCHES NEW HEIGHTS OF EMOTION

Movie · Drama · 2h 17m · Rated 7.1/10 on TMDB · Released December 15, 1944

Overview

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 humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.

Directed by John M. Stahl

Cast

• Gregory Peck as Fr. Francis Chisholm
• Thomas Mitchell as Willie Tulloch
• Vincent Price as Angus Mealey
• Rose Stradner as Reverend Mother Maria-Veronica
• Roddy McDowall as Francis Chisholm, as a boy
• Edmund Gwenn as Fr. Hamish MacNabb
• Cedric Hardwicke as Monsignor at Tweedside
• Peggy Ann Garner as Nora as a Girl
• Jane Ball as Nora, as an Adult
• James Gleason as Rev. Dr. Wilbur Fiske
• Anne Revere as Agnes Fiske
• Ruth Nelson as Mrs. Chisholm, Francis' Mother

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