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1949-07-271h 34m

ComedyDrama

Laughs To Make Your Heart Ring Out With Joy!

Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.

Directors
Henry Koster

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  1. Loretta Young

    Loretta Young

    Sister Margaret

  2. Celeste Holm

    Celeste Holm

    Sister Scholastica

  3. Hugh Marlowe

    Hugh Marlowe

    Robert Masen

  4. Elsa Lanchester

    Elsa Lanchester

    Amelia Potts

  5. Thomas Gomez

    Thomas Gomez

    Luigi Rossi

  6. Dorothy Patrick

    Dorothy Patrick

    Kitty

  7. Basil Ruysdael

    Basil Ruysdael

    The Bishop

  8. Dooley Wilson

    Dooley Wilson

    Anthony James

  9. Regis Toomey

    Regis Toomey

    Monsignor Talbot

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CinemaSerf

Jun 1, 2025

7/10

There was always something of the butter wouldn’t melt about Loretta Young but rarely more so in this enjoyable caper of two nuns who set about building a children’s hospital. Her sister “Margaret” has travelled from wartime France with her colleague “Scholastica” (Celeste Holm) and they have arrived at what they reckon, thanks to a nativity at the home of the eccentric “Miss Potts” (Elsa Lanchester), is a divinely inspired site. There’s plenty of land and an old factory for them to use so all they need do now is get the bishop to give them some cash and away they go. Unfortunately, he (Basil Ruysdael) hasn’t the cash nor is he convinced that they will ever get the land owner to sell. Undaunted, they set off on that task and so follows a series of amiable escapades involving gangsters, a songwriter who doesn’t really want them in his backyard (Hugh Marlowe), plenty of noisy geese, ducks, jams and the best example of a fully frocked nun playing tennis you are ever likely to see. Is there any doubt as to the conclusion? Well no, indeed that aspect of the film is all rather rushed. It’s the path to that which brings a feel-good factor to the proceedings with these two persistent women staying just the right side of annoying as they mix dedication with a certain degree of serendipity to attain their goal. It has the feel of a Christmas film to it, with messages of humanity and decency writ large; Lanchester plays engagingly as the well-meaning but slightly dotty “Potts” and though I could have been doing with a little more from Holm, she and Young deliver a mischievous blend of tenacity and the silly quite entertainingly.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
nunnew england