John Ford's sanctification of a Mexican whisky priest, from the Graham Greene novel, The Power and the Glory. It is Ford's highest-striving movie, which for him will have to mean his most experimentally Expressionistic. (It is also, as he stubbornly maintained in the face of public and critical rejection, his personal favorite.) Seldom on screen has such intellectual naiveté been put across with such visual suavity. Not nearly the sacred object it was intended to be; but a fascinating artifact of religious kitsch nonetheless. With Henry Fonda, Dolores Del Rio, Pedro Armendariz, and Ward Bond. (1947) — Duncan Shepherd
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