The Left Hand of God (1955)

Directed by

Edward Dmytryk

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 43 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1947 China a man on the run poses as a Catholic priest at a small mission. He gets drawn into the lives of the people there especially a nurse which leads to complications and danger.

tensebroodingromanticdramaticslow-burnatmosphericsuspensefulmelancholic

What happens

The Left Hand of God is a 1955 American drama film. It was directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Buddy Adler, from a screenplay by Alfred Hayes, based on the novel The Left Hand of God, by William Edmund Barrett. Set in a small American mission in China in 1947, at the time of the Chinese Civil War, it stars Humphrey Bogart as a hunted man masquerading as a Catholic priest and Gene Tierney in the role of a nurse, with a supporting cast including Lee J. Cobb, Agnes Moorehead, E. G. Marshall, and Carl Benton Reid. While playing Anne Scott, Tierney became ill. Bogart had a personal experience as he was close to a sister who suffered from mental illness, and, during the production, he fed Tierney her lines and encouraged her to seek help. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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