China-Story

China-Story (1962)

Satan Never Sleeps

1949 werden die katholischen Priester O'Banion (Holden) und Bovard (Webb) ständig von der Kommunistischen Volkspartei in ihrem Außenposten in China missbraucht. Zu den Problemen von Pater O'Banion kommt noch die Köchin der Mission, Siu Lan (France Nuyen), ein attraktives chinesisches Mädchen, das aus ihrer Liebe kein Geheimnis macht. Unter der Führung von Ho San (Weaver Lee) zerstören die Kommunisten die Missionsstation und entweihen die Kapelle. Ho San schnallt sich O'Banion an einen Stuhl und vergewaltigt Siu Lan; Später, als sie einen Sohn zur Welt bringt, zeigt Ho San väterlichen Stolz, weigert sich jedoch, die Verfolgung der Priester einzustellen.

Erscheinungsdatum
1962-02-22
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (17)
Laufzeit
2 Std. 5 Min.
Genres
Drama
Regie
Leo McCarey

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

Satan Never Sleeps is a 1962 American drama romance war 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.

Production

Satan Never Sleeps had The China Story for working title. The film was based on an original screenplay by Pearl S. Buck called China Story that had been sold to 20th Century Fox. In 1950, Hal B. Wallis acquired it and in 1960, it came to Leo McCarey.

Hooper and Poague report McCarey's difficulties directing Satan Never Sleeps which he discussed in a 1965 Cahiers du Cinéma interview. According to McCarey, he left the film in disgust [due to] constant studio interference with his work and "modifications" to his script, and the final week's shooting was left to an assistant.

Biographer Wes D. Gehring notes that McCarey had conceived a denouement different from that which the studio inserted, in which "William Holden’s priest dies, rather than act upon his love for a woman".

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