The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)

NR12/15/1944Drama2h 17m
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THE PICTURE THAT TOUCHES NEW HEIGHTS OF EMOTION

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.

Top Billed Cast

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    Gregory Peck

    Fr. Francis Chisholm

  2. Cast 1

    Thomas Mitchell

    Willie Tulloch

  3. Cast 1

    Vincent Price

    Angus Mealey

  4. Cast 1

    Rose Stradner

    Reverend Mother Maria-Veronica

  5. Cast 1

    Roddy McDowall

    Francis Chisholm, as a boy

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    Edmund Gwenn

    Fr. Hamish MacNabb

  7. Cast 1

    Cedric Hardwicke

    Monsignor at Tweedside

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    Peggy Ann Garner

    Nora as a Girl

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    Jane Ball

    Nora, as an Adult

I sometimes wonder whether politics in the 21st century might be a bit more stable around the globe, were we not to have spent much of the last century sending folks like "Father Chisholm" all over the place imposing Christianity on peoples who had got along splendidly for aeons without it... This film depicts one such gentleman - a well meaning Father who struggles to find fulfilment at home in Scotland. His seminarian friend Edmund Gwenn is now the Bishop, and decides he needs a challenge - so he is duly dispatched to China where he is tasked with spreading his faith amongst those in a war-t...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$3,000,000.00

Revenue -

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