Word: frend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...typically dull sermons to be delivered to the student body of a nearby public school, Donat suffers a heart attack. Concealing his illness from his family, he visits a specialist and learns that he has no more than a year to live. At this point, the direction of Charles Frend comes amazingly alive. The doomed man goes to the cathedral to pray, and in a magic moment, life seems unbearably precious to him, heady in its color and configuration and line, jeweled with sunsets and enriched by the warmth of common humanity...
...generally fairly adult in dealing with religion, which is practically a dirty word in squeamish Hollywood. Too often protectors of American faith are protrayed as grinning flaxen-haired Catholic priests, who just love baseball, or late, great, Senate chaplains, who equally love their Georgia peaches. Evidently, director Charles Frend has a healthy respect for accuracy when he gives us the inside line on the Church of England...