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Going My Way (Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald; TIME...
Going My Way (Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald; TIME...
...study is an end in itself. Character study is, of course, impossible without good acting and it is Barry Fitzgerald as Father Fitzgibbons who makes the picture. Fitzgerald, probably one of the greatest living actors, gives a flawless characterization of an old man teetering on the edge of senility, Bing Crosby, the nominal star of the picture, is wise enough to play second fiddle in the scenes with Fitzgerald. In his own scenes he is just Bing Crosby...
Going My Way (Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald; TIME...
...display. Father O'Malley, still more dangerously, might have been one of those brisk, bland up-&-comers who have made an impure science of "not acting like a priest at all." Instead he is subtle, gay, debonair-a wise young priest whose arresting resemblance to Bing Crosby never obscures his essential power...