“How Violators of Human Decency Work Their Terror Countdown!”
A priest arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl who has joined him along the way. His job is to relieve the existing priest, who is now too old and weak to continue with the upkeep of the church. However, Communist soldiers arrive at the mission and seize it as a command post. Their leader rapes the native girl and impregnates her, only later to realize that Communism is no good for him. In the end, the foursome flee to the border, but are pursued by Communist forces along the way.
Leo McCarey
Leo McCarey
Claude Binyon
Leo McCarey
Oswald Morris
Richard Rodney Bennett
William Holden
Father O'Banion
Clifton Webb
Father Bovard
France Nuyen
Siu Lan
Athene Seyler
Sister Agness
Martin Benson
Kuznietsky
Edith Sharpe
Sister Theresa
Robert Lee
Chung Ren
Marie Yang
Ho San's Mother
Andy Ho
Ho San's father
Burt Kwouk
Ah Wang
Anthony Chinn
Ho San's Driver
Noel Hood
Sister Justine
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CinemaSerf
Clifton Webb is quite effective here as a catholic priest "Fr. Bovard" who must reconcile his rather optimistically dogmatic faith with the arrival of his more worldly and pragmatic assistant "Fr. O'Banion" (William Holden) and the rise of the Communist party as exemplified by his former student "C...
20th Century Fox