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Title: You just can't kill that damn religion.
Review: This is another Henry Fonda snooze-fest. He plays a fugitive preist in a ficticious banana republic that has outlawed religion. Worse, they've outlawed wine. I immediately concluded that the the rest of the priests must be witless fools if he is the only one left. He goes about baptizing babies, hearing confessions, performing last rites & other acts of terrorism. Needless to say, this this has nothing to do with the tv series or Harrison Ford movie of the same name. At least they were entertaining. This is an unremtting grim message movie. It doesn't work. Excellent camera technique. Strange angles & use of dark shadows & lots of imagery. The camers loves Delores del Rio as the Madonna metaphor. Director John Ford did many excellent movies with John Wayne & Henry Fonda but this was his favorite. Go figure
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