Doctor Lyle Bettger comes to jesuit priest Charles Boyer with a confession, and it's not one that's really flattering to him, let alone easy to explain. It all starts with the decision of a young jesuit priest (Wesley Addy) to leave the order. By some miracle, a dying priest (H.B. Warner) comes out of his stupor and once word gets around, the news of a miracle gives hope to the locales, especially a wheelchair bound girl (Barbara Rush), and Bettger was there to witness it and believes that it was a medical miracle, not a spiritual one.
This is a weird film to try to explain, one that must be seen to be understood. I was left flustered by its themes but not by the cast which includes as other jesuits the cynical George Zucco, the flamboyant William Demarest, the wise Leo G. Carroll and the profound Walter Hampden. Demarest gets some good laughs, completely un-cranky for a change, the jesuit version of Barry Fitzgerald from "Going My Way". This is not an easy film to judge because it depends on the viewer to reach into their own faith, yet it is overloaded with religious cynicism as well, making its point of view rather confusing.
This is a weird film to try to explain, one that must be seen to be understood. I was left flustered by its themes but not by the cast which includes as other jesuits the cynical George Zucco, the flamboyant William Demarest, the wise Leo G. Carroll and the profound Walter Hampden. Demarest gets some good laughs, completely un-cranky for a change, the jesuit version of Barry Fitzgerald from "Going My Way". This is not an easy film to judge because it depends on the viewer to reach into their own faith, yet it is overloaded with religious cynicism as well, making its point of view rather confusing.