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...Keys of the Kingdom (Gregory Peck, Edmund Gwenn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Rosa Stradner; TIME, January...
...hours and 17 minutes of unassailable if rather pedestrian sincerity, The Keys of the Kingdom never grows tedious. Toward the end it produces two very moving scenes of farewell-one, beautifully and quietly acted, between the priest and a nun (Rosa Stradner), the other, the priest's simple and eloquent farewell to his congregation and to the whole of his remote, triumphant life...
There are many good performances in The Keys-notably the sharply etched ecclesiastical portraits of Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price and Edmund Gwenn, and the disciplined, powerful performance of Austrian Rosa Stradner, a screen newcomer, as the nun. But the picture's biggest, toughest role is remarkably handled by 28-year-old Gregory Peck. He combines a bearing and demeanor that a matinee idol might envy (rather suggesting a sandpapered Lincoln) with a dominant naturalness. It is not surprising that he has no theatrical ancestry-his father is a San Diego druggist...