Priests in Peril #1: John Stahl’s The Keys of the Kingdom
Sunday Apr 3, 2022 @ 1:30 PM Central Time
The first in our series on “priests in peril,” The Keys of the Kingdom is about a young Scottish priest (Gregory Peck) who is sent in 1938 to establish a parish in an impoverished province in China, where he encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of setbacks which make him more determined than ever to succeed, especially when he is humiliated by his childhood friend (Vincent Price), now also a priest in a more prosperous region in China. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Actor and Best Cinematography. (1944, cc, 137 minutes.)