The Left Hand of God

“THE STRANGEST COVENANT BETWEEN GOD AND MAN EVER MADE!”

A stranger in priestly robes arrives at a remote Catholic mission in 1947 China, and he seems to be the long-awaited Father O'Shea. Jim Carmody (Humphrey Bogart) is uneasy with the duties of the cloth, yet his blunt methods win the Seven Villages while civil war breaks up the country around them. Edward Dmytryk lets his friendship with the widowed nurse Anne (Gene Tierney) turn into a question of what a man owes to the name he is wearing.