Peck has some terribly unorthodox ideas as a priest.
And the film is held together by the sincere and deeply felt performance of Gregory Peck as Father Chisholm.
The film is a flashback narrative of his life as a missionary. But as Hardwicke reads Peck's words and we go back over his life, it's been a pious and rewarding one as a missionary in China. When we first meet Peck, elderly and infirm that he is, he looks like he could be the model for Alec Guinness's muddled old reverend in Kind Hearts and Coronets. On an impulse, Hardwicke decides it might be good bedtime reading. Peck puts him up for the night in his own room where he keeps a journal that he has faithfully recorded his life. Hardwicke's there to investigate complaints about him. When we meet Peck he's an elderly priest who's got a visitor in Monsignor Cedric Hardwicke who has come to the Scottish town where he's from and now is a pastor. Cronin’s finest work.In his second film Gregory Peck got the first of his Best Actor nominations for playing the pious and devote Father Francis Chisholm in The Keys of the Kingdom. Hailed as “a magnificent story of the great adventure of individual goodness” by The New York Times Book Review and “full of life and people and color” by Harper’s, The Keys of the Kingdom is considered by many to be A.J. Francis Chisholm, a role for which he earned his first Best Actor Oscar nomination. The Keys of the Kingdom was adapted into the 1944 film starring Gregory Peck as Fr.
Despite enormous obstacles and temptations, Father Chisholm continues to live in accordance with what he holds as the ultimate truth-serving humanity is the one true religion of the world. He encounters fierce resistance from the local Chinese who distrust his motives, especially as they do not understand or condone his faith. Ostracized by the clerical community and looked down on by his superiors, Chisholm takes a position in China where he supervises a mission beset by poverty, civil war, and plague.
Cronin’s inspiring novel of a controversial Scottish priest on a mission in China, where he learns the true meaning of humanity-and of faith.įrancis Chisholm-a kindhearted and straightforward Scottish priest-walks a path all his own, making him unpopular with other members of the clergy.
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