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Satan Never Sleeps is a american film of genre Drama directed by Leo McCarey released in USA on 22 february 1962 with William Holden
Satan Never Sleeps (1962)
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Add to a movie listSatan Never Sleeps (also known as The Devil Never Sleeps) is a 1962 film directed by Leo McCarey, his final film, in which he returns to the religious themes of his classics Going My Way (1944) and The Bells of St. Mary's (1945). It also is the final screen appearance of actor Clifton Webb.
It is about a priest, Father O'Banion (William Holden), who arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl, Siu Lan (France Nuyen), who has joined him along the way. His job is to relieve the incumbent priest Father Bovard (Webb), who is now too old and weak to continue with the upkeep of the church. However, Mao's 1949 Communist soldiers, who arrive at the mission before Bovard can depart, seize it as a command post. Their leader, Ho San (Weaver Lee), rapes the native girl and impregnates her, only later to realise that Communism is no good for him. In the end, the foursome flee to the border, but are pursued by Communist forces along the way.
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In 1949, Catholic priests O'Banion (William Holden) and Bovard (Clifton Webb) are constantly harassed by the Communist People's Party at their remote mission outpost in China. Adding to Father O'Banion's troubles is the mission's cook, Siu Lan (France Nuyen), an attractive Chinese girl who makes no secret of her love for him.Actors
William Holden
(Father O'Banion)
Clifton Webb
(Father Bovard)
France Nuyen
(Siu Lan)
Athene Seyler
(Sister Agness)
Martin Benson
(Kuznietsky)
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