![]() ![]() ![]() Chisom refuses - perhaps too firmly - but does accept an offer of land and support for a new mission. There, despite constant hardship, harassment and ingratitude, his unfailing idealism, humility and decency enable him to accomplish much good.Ĭhisom’ rudimentary surgery saves the son of a local Mandarin, in return for which the Mandarin offers to support Chisom’s work by becoming a Christian. Orphaned at a young age due to anti-Catholic violence, Francis eventually enters the priesthood.Īfter a couple of undistinguished curacies, Chisom is sent by a superior (Edmund Gwenn) who recognizes his virtues to China to be a missionary. ![]() Chisom’s journals, the story begins with Chisom as a boy (Roddy McDowall growing up in Scotland with a Catholic father and a Protestant mother. At the same time, the story celebrates its hero as an idiosyncratic priest whose lifelong best friend (Thomas Mitchell) was a confirmed atheist, and who held odd, even problematic views on religion. Cronin, the film looks back on a life of heroic priestly service unmarked by outward success, worldly recognition or ecclesiastical honor. Based on the onetime best-selling novel by A. ![]()
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