![]() Late in the film, some Protestant missionaries come, James Gleason and Anne Revere, and he becomes great friends with both. ![]() For one thing he's not preaching that his own denomination has the corner on a good afterlife. Peck has some terribly unorthodox ideas as a priest. And the film is held together by the sincere and deeply felt performance of Gregory Peck as Father Chisholm. The film is a flashback narrative of his life as a missionary. 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. 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. ![]() ![]() On an impulse, Hardwicke decides it might be good bedtime reading. Peck puts him up for the night in his own room where he keeps a journal that he has faithfully recorded his life. Hardwicke's there to investigate complaints about him. 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. ![]() In his second film Gregory Peck got the first of his Best Actor nominations for playing the pious and devote Father Francis Chisholm in The Keys of the Kingdom. ![]()
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