Details

Release year: 1961

Storyline

In a small Mexican town, a Catholic priest (Sir John Mills) and a local bandit (Sir Dirk Bogarde) clash, but the brave priest ultimately wins the outlaw's respect.

Top credits

Directors

Roy Ward Baker

Writers

Cast

Dirk Bogarde — Anacleto Comachi
John Mills — Father Michael Keogh
Mylène Demongeot — Locha de Cortinez
Laurence Naismith — Old Uncle

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Did you know

• After the J. Arthur Rank Organisation insisted that Sir John Mills had to play the priest, Sir Dirk Bogarde became so incensed that he told director Roy Ward Baker: "I promise you, if Johnny plays the Priest, I will make life unbearable for everyone concerned."

• Introducing a clip from this movie in the rather staid context of the BBC's Best of British (1987) program in the late 1980s, Sir John Mills openly acknowledged its homosexual overtones.

• Sir John Mills has stated in interviews that Sir Dirk Bogarde was one of the very few actors with whom he disliked working. However, he eventually acknowledged that he and Sir Dirk had become reconciled towards the end of the latter's life.