The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.3/10   

Director:

John M. Stahl

Escritores:

Joseph L. Mankiewicz (screenplay) and
Nunnally Johnson (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

15 diciembre 1944 (USA)

Género:

Drama

Plot:

A young priest, Father Chisholm (Gregory Peck) is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese...

Plot Keywords:

Priest | Catholic | China | Racism | Religious Bigotry

Premios:

Nominated for 4 Oscars.

Comentarios de los usuarios:

What a wonderful story!

Reparto

Gregory Peck	...	Father Francis Chisholm
Thomas Mitchell	...	Willie Tulloch
Vincent Price	...	Angus Mealey
Rose Stradner	...	Reverend Mother Maria-Veronica (as Rosa Stradner)
Roddy McDowall	...	Francis Chisholm, as a boy
Edmund Gwenn	...	Father Hamish MacNabb
Cedric Hardwicke	...	Monsignor at Tweedside (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke)
Peggy Ann Garner	...	Nora, as a girl
Jane Ball	...	Nora, as an adult
James Gleason	...	Rev. Dr. Wilbur Fiske
Anne Revere	...	Agnes Fiske
Ruth Nelson	...	Mrs. Chisholm, Francis' mother
Benson Fong	...	Joseph
Leonard Strong	...	Mr. Chia
Philip Ahn	...	Mr. Pao, envoy for Mr. Chia

También conocida como:

Las llaves del reino (Argentina) (Spain) (Venezuela) [es]

Duración:

137 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Mandarin | Cantonés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Clasificación:

Canada:PG (video rating) | Argentina:13 | Finland:S | Spain:T | USA:Approved (certificate #10003) | Sweden:Btl

Locaciones de Filmación:

20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Compañía:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Citas:

[first lines]
Title card: On a September evening in 1938, Father Francis Chisholm returned to his little church near Tweedside, Scotland.
Father Francis Chisholm: Good afternoon, Monsignor.
Monsignor: Good afternoon, Father.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in The Brotherhood (2001) (V)

What a wonderful story!

What a wonderful story of a man, despite much adversity, contributes himself to the Chinese community he loves so much. It is amazing how Peck makes it so effortless (even in his only second film)in portraying a young man to one in his twilight years. He personifies morality and quiet integrity in this film, reminiscent to the role that he would play nearly twenty years later in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.

The supporting cast which performs more than ably is led by Cedric Hardwicke playing a monsignor who was initially critical of the Peck character but emerges having respect for him after reading his memoirs (which form the narration for the film. Others include Thomas Mitchell as the irreverent self-proclaimed atheist who does much to provide the witty humour for the film, Edmund Gwenn as Peck's plucky mentor at the seminary who uses the term "ecclesiastical mechanic" to describe priests who are inflexible and bureaucratic, and Rose Stradner as the Mother Superior who falls in love with Peck (you only get a hint of this).

One of the highlights is the film's efforts in portraying the Chinese in a sensitive manner in terms of the customs shown and dialects used. This is very unlike films of its era which tended to portray Asians in a more stereotypical fashion.