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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543164982
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 22, 2005
Running Time: 125 minutes
Sales Rank: 16517
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1962
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - sin and redemption, temptation and restraint, in China
I don't know how closely this film follows the then recently published novel of the same title by Pearl Buck, but the screen writer might well have been Senator Joe McCarthy. Basically, a morality play in which the Chinese communists are the bad guys and the Western Catholic priests and their Chinese converts are the good guys. It also highlights the not uncommon problem of a woman falling in love with a priest and the intense conflict this can cause to both.
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Rating:  - Searing Indictment of Red China
When I came across the DVD release of this film I was surprised at how recently it was made. I saw the film a number of times many years ago (not always on television) and vaguely imagined it dated from the early Fifties. I was also surprised to find it was made by Leo McCarey, who is mostly known for his popular comedies starring the Marx Brothers or a cassock-clad Bing Crosby.
Because it is a story of Catholic missionaries, the plot appears superficially to be a tale of conflict between ... Read More
Rating: - An exercise in temptation and sexual frustration.
Poor William Holden! He never got to make a romantic movie with the beautiful France Nuyen! He almost made "The World of Susie Wong" with her, but she got pulled and the equally gorgeous Nancy Kwan was substituted. Here in "Satan Never Sleeps", France is totally in love with William Holden, but unfortunately for her (and him) he is a Catholic Priest. Williams character goes through some big struggles with temptation but never gives up his vows. Just when he seems to be at the breaking point, an event happens ... Read More
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