The Keys of the Kingdom

1944 PG-13 2h 17m

7.1 / 10 52

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

Director John M. Stahl

Writers

A.J. Cronin Joseph L. Mankiewicz Nunnally Johnson

Stars

Gregory Peck Thomas Mitchell Vincent Price

Reverend Mother Maria-Veronica

Roddy McDowall

Francis Chisholm, as a boy

Edmund Gwenn

Fr. Hamish MacNabb

Cedric Hardwicke

Monsignor at Tweedside

Rev. Dr. Wilbur Fiske

Anne Revere

Agnes Fiske

Ruth Nelson

Mrs. Chisholm, Francis' Mother

Mr. Pao, Envoy for Mr. Chia

Arthur Shields

Fr. Fitzgerald, Dean at Holywell

Alec Chisholm (uncredited)

Ruth Clifford

Sister Mercy Mary (uncredited)

J. Anthony Hughes

Uncle Ned (uncredited)

James B. Leong

Taoist Priest at Boy's Healing (uncredited)

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Richard Wang

Chinese Servant (uncredited)

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Joseph Kim

Chinese Servant (uncredited)

Moy Ming

Chinese Doctor (uncredited)

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Beal Wong

Chinese Captain (uncredited)

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Geronimo1967 30 Jun 2022

7/10

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 S...