One of John Ford’s lesser known films, this is about a priest who is being pursued in an unnamed American country simply by virtue of being a priest. Henry Fonda isn’t very good as said priest, mainly because he doesn’t convey the complexities of the part (which is one of Graham Greene’s “whiskey priests”).
There are some interesting chats about the nature of religion, but this piece really had its balls cut off – and anyway I don’t think Ford was the director for it; he was better with myth than a serious treatment of religious prosecution, even if done in the guise of a chase fiml.
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