The Keys of the Kingdom
by John M. Stahl
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Actor: Gregory Peck, Roddy McDowall, Rose Stradner, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent PriceDirector: John M. Stahl
Brand: Fox
Cinematographer: Arthur C. Miller
Editor: James B. Clark
Producer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer: A.J. Cronin
Writer: Nunnally Johnson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Black & White, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 137 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-07-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of The Keys of the Kingdom
DVD Review: A problem that grew.
Summary: 2 Stars
Any well read and well educated traditional Catholic thinking about buying this movie... save your cash. If you're looking for a good, clean, harmless "religious themed" movie you can enjoy, you're more likely to end up by tearing your hair out or at least shaking your head sadly at the screen the whole picture. It may be clean, but it's neither good nor harmless in terms of it's theology.
This movie underlines the religious attitude that has created (or at least heavily compounded) in the Catholic Church a horrendous rift. The issue? That sappy, soft, sentimental viewpoint of papally condemned (prior to the last few popes) ecumenism, which is prevalent throughout this whole film. That error condemned by the Catholic Faith, that "all religions are equal/good/can get you to heaven just as well."
This error has been condemned from the chair of Peter long before the modern church began to tout it as the "road to unity" which the sound-minded Catholic knows is folly. (How can you say that a kind of unity is good if it has for it's price, the throwing out or disregarding of all truth?) This movie eloquently touts that very error (ecumenism) in a poisonously attractive form... a kind and loving Catholic priest, who can put aside "unreasonable, ugly, mean and hurtful truth" to get cozy with teachers of a rival religion... wholly without qualms that they've come to undermine his missionary work. In fact... this movie portrays a complete lack of interest in converting people at all as a plus, unless by conversion you mean getting the love and esteem of human beings precisely for NOT bothering to try to convert them. (Which is okay for laypeople, but not for a Catholic missionary whose very purpose in going ANYWHERE is precisely to convert people.)
If you're not Catholic, or you really believe that reality is as versatile as fantasy (so that error is equal to truth), then you will probably watch this movie, smile, and have warm fuzzy feelings about everybody throwing ideas out the window in lieu of a pleasant luncheon where ideals are left on the hat rack with one's umbrella.
If you are a traditional Catholic, watching this movie will only rend open the already deep wound of the Bride of Christ reflected in the hearts of every one who has ever born harsh and merciless insults and criticism, or lost friends and the love of family to adhere to an eternal truth that doesn't bend to man's whims... or even to nice internal feelings and rank sentimentalism. If you're one of these, keep your money, and save yourself the renewed pain, insult and shame of watching yet another example of Catholicism gone terribly awry.
Peace is not made when morals and ideals are laid aside in order to shake hands with those who are against morals and ideals. Peace is made when everybody universally recognizes and adheres to truth, and the morality and ideals in line with that truth. Charity is a beautiful thing, but heresy is not. This movie is full of overtones which praise, idolize and promote ecumenical heresy, wrapped warmly in the thickest blanket ever of the virtue the Catholic Church is best known for... charity. To the point, I might add, that most people will not know the one from the other. I approve wholeheartedly of the kindness and charity (towards persons of any religious viewpoint), but not at all of the poison of heresy woven into it.
If the church still had a blacklist, this could've been on it twice. Catholic missionaries (until perhaps very recent modern times) were not purely "relief workers in cassock" (though you could write volumes on their contributions in that department all the same). Anyone who has ever read a book of martyrs knows that many a priest went to a horrible death for no other reason than to save... that is to convert... souls, not stomachs. This movie is a slap in the face of every one of them, and the triumph of modern man's schizophrenic disassociation from objective truth in the name of warm fuzzy feelings.
Description of The Keys of the Kingdom
A marvelous spectacle spanning six decades and two continents, The Keys of the Kingdom is the glorious epic that introduced audiences to screen newcomer Gregory Peck.After losing his parents and his childhood sweetheart to tragedy, Francis Chisholm (Peck) joins the priesthood and devotes himself to a life of service and compassion. But Chisholm?s unorthodox beliefs raise eyebrows among his superiors, especially Bishop Angus Mealy (Vincent Price). And when he is sent to the farthest reaches of China to rebuild an abandoned mission, Chisholm faces his greatest challenge of all: to tame a hostile land, win over a superstitious people and save his parish from an invading army. Nominated* for four Academy Awards®, including Best Actor (Peck), The Keys of the Kingdom is a ?towering film stamped with greatness? (The Independent).
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