![]() It’s a difficult task, indeed, to mount a Hollywood pic on the inner-life struggles of a conflicted nun, who feels she doesn’t have the proper humility to serve God and much to his credit Zinnemann does it without gloss in an understated way. Director Fred Zinnemann (“High Noon”/”A Hatful of Rain”/”Oklahoma!”) keeps this serious film on the selfless inward religious life for the devout, set in the 1930s and 1940s, on target and godlike. Van Der Mal), Mildred Dunnock (Sister Margharita), Patricia Collinge (Sister William), Colleen Dewhurst (Archangel Gabriel, asylum patient), Lionel Jeffries (Doctor Goovaerts), Niall MacGinnis (Father Vermeuhlen), Beatrice Straight (Mother Christophe), Ruth White (Mother Marcella) Runtime: 149 MPAA Rating: NR producer: Henry Blanke Warner Home Videos 1959)Ī mostly forgotten pic today but in its day it was the most successful movie Warner Brothers ever made, with grosses surpassing the $7 million mark. Fortunati), Edith Evans (Mother Emmanuel Superior General), Dame Peggy Ashcroft (Mother Mathilde), Dean Jagger (Dr. ![]() ![]() (director: Fred Zinnemann screenwriter: Robert Anderson/from the novel by Kathryn Hulme cinematographer: Franz Planer editor: Walter Thompson music: Franz Waxman cast: Audrey Hepburn (Gabrielle Van Der Mal/Sister Luke), Peter Finch (Dr. ![]()
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