Jovem padre é enviado à China para pregar o cristianismo, mas seu esforço maior passa a ser contra os problemas sociais da região. Quando retorna à Escócia, decide ensinar jovens que, como e... Ler tudoJovem padre é enviado à China para pregar o cristianismo, mas seu esforço maior passa a ser contra os problemas sociais da região. Quando retorna à Escócia, decide ensinar jovens que, como ele, têm dificuldades em encontrar seu lugar.Jovem padre é enviado à China para pregar o cristianismo, mas seu esforço maior passa a ser contra os problemas sociais da região. Quando retorna à Escócia, decide ensinar jovens que, como ele, têm dificuldades em encontrar seu lugar.
- Indicado a 4 Oscars
- 4 indicações no total
- Rev. Mother Maria-Veronica
- (as Rosa Stradner)
- Monsignor at Tweedside
- (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke)
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- CuriosidadesAccording to Hollywood columnist Erskine Johnson, Joseph Cotten tested for the role of the minister in the film. He also referred to the project as David O. Selznick's version although screen credits list no such connection (Newspaper Enterprise Association, "Erskine Johnson's Hollywood," The Sa Bernardino Daily Sun, San Bernardino California, Sunday 1 February 1942, Volume 48, page 20.)
- Erros de gravaçãoIn the 1:40 hr mark, Fr. Chisholm approaches the sentries who command him to follow them in Tagalog, a Philippine language.
- Citações
Joseph: [irritated by Msgr. Mealey's racist remarks] Father, may I say something sinful?
Father Francis Chisholm: Of course not.
Joseph: You will hear it in confession anyway, because I'm thinking it.
- ConexõesFeatured in Gregory Peck: Fiel a Si Mesmo (1988)
When we meet Peck he's an elderly priest who's got a visitor in Monsignor Cedric Hardwicke who has come to the Scottish town where he's from and now is a pastor. Hardwicke's there to investigate complaints about him. Peck puts him up for the night in his own room where he keeps a journal that he has faithfully recorded his life. On an impulse, Hardwicke decides it might be good bedtime reading.
When we first meet Peck, elderly and infirm that he is, he looks like he could be the model for Alec Guinness's muddled old reverend in Kind Hearts and Coronets. But as Hardwicke reads Peck's words and we go back over his life, it's been a pious and rewarding one as a missionary in China.
The film is a flashback narrative of his life as a missionary. And the film is held together by the sincere and deeply felt performance of Gregory Peck as Father Chisholm. Peck has some terribly unorthodox ideas as a priest. For one thing he's not preaching that his own denomination has the corner on a good afterlife. Late in the film, some Protestant missionaries come, James Gleason and Anne Revere, and he becomes great friends with both. He's even friends with a self styled atheist in Thomas Mitchell who is an atheist, a medical doctor and a good man indeed. Mitchell's deathbed scene with Peck is quite touching and avoids a lot of the clichés associated with such scenes.
Another thing is Peck and the sisters led by Rose Stradner who later come to help live as simply and modestly as the Chinese around them. They gain some converts, but even more importantly they gain the respect of those around them. This is contrasted when Peck's childhood friend Vincent Price who has become a bishop and takes the phrase Prince of the Church quite literally.
The casting in the film is first rate and 20th Century Fox did a good job in recreating the feel and atmosphere of China which at that point was engaged in expelling the Japanese from their soil. The Keys of the Kingdom got several Oscar nominations including Peck's, but came up short on the statues.
I enjoyed the film a whole lot and I don't think one has to be a firm believer in any Christian denomination to enjoy it. Peck's Father Francis Chisholm may have led an obscure life, but his faith sustains him through all and he leads by sheer example. It's something that a lot of religious leaders fall short of, but not in this case.
Peck's life will surely gain him possession of The Keys of the Kingdom and we could all use a lot more Father Chisholms in this world.
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- 27 de jan. de 2007
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- US$ 3.000.000 (estimativa)
- Tempo de duração2 horas 17 minutos
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