Film · RKO · 1945
Pass it on
The Bells of St. Mary's
61Watch it awake.
Kind and thin: a priest and a nun arguing over a boy and a school that may shut.
The review
A school may close, which is more plot than the sweetness suggests. Father O'Malley meets a sister who runs the place the diocese may shut. They disagree about a boy and about a building. Ingrid Bergman, Bing Crosby, the largest ordinary gross of 1945. Kind, and thin. I liked them. I also felt the hour going soft before anyone had to lose for long.
Our house could watch it without a fuss. The boy is an argument they actually have, not a button on the poster, and the building is something a town can lose. That's a short spine. If the children see it, ask what she won't give up, the boy or the building, and let them argue without your ending.
Journal
Keep The Bells of St. Mary's in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 61. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety is the thin one.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Babe
73 instead of 61
Babe is still a comedy film, and it scores 73 instead of 61. What you gain is temperance: Gentle authority.
The eight
- 7Industry
A sister runs a school, and whether it stays open is the work that matters.
- 6Household
They disagree about a boy, so the child is the argument, not a decoration.
- 5Piety
Priest and sister disagree, and the cloth settles neither the boy nor the building.
- 6Courage
She keeps a school the diocese may shut, the place she would actually miss.
- 7Republic
A school and a building are what the parish owes the children who use them.
- 5Temperance
It stays kind and chases no thrill, and it is too thin to train a want.
- 6Truth
The fight is stated plainly: a boy, a building, and no villain pasted over it.
- 7Stewardship
The argument is whether that school is still standing for the children later.
Where to watch
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