The film is based on the Graham Greene novel 'The Power and the Glory' about a revolutionary priest, in Central America, who finds refuge with a faithful parishioner when the government outlaw Christianity. Greene's complicated morality is dropped, but is replaced with some pretty stunning cinematography, in John Ford's atmospheric adaptation featuring an impressive performance from Henry Ford in the title role. find out more...

The film is entirely extracted from the diary of Grace Elliot, a doughty royalist residing in France during the turbulent and uncertain period of the Revolution. What makes it of historical interest is that her ex-lover and close friend, le Duc de Orleans, a cousin of the king, was of a different political hue, a revolutionary idealist who believed in parliamentary democracy, but who was swept aside in the violent class upheaval that marked the end of the feudalistic Bourbon court. A sumptuous c find out more...