The First Legion (1951)
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Since its lapse into public domain in 1978, First Legion has joined Love Affair and Algiers as the most readily available of Charles Boyer's films. Boyer plays Fr. Marc Arnoux, the head of St. Gregory's seminary, who can never quite shake the feeling that he shouldn't have given up his career as an attorney. His fellow Jesuit priests likewise occasionally question their calling, especially crotchety Msgr. Michael Carey (William Demarest). One by one, however, the priests are won over by various "miracles" visited upon them. Barbara Rush co-stars as a crippled girl who indirectly benefits from the priests' renewed faith. The First Legion was produced and directed with surprising restraint by Douglas Sirk. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Charles Boyer - Fr. Marc Arnoux
- Lyle Bettger - Dr. Peter Morrell
- Walter Hampden - Fr. Edward Quarterman
- Taylor Holmes - Fr. Keene
- George Zucco - Fr. Robert Stuart
- Clifford Brooke - Lay Brother
- Molly Lamont - Mrs. Gilmartin
- Jacqueline De Wit - Nurse
- Barbara Rush - Terry Gilmartin
- William Demarest - Msgr. Michael Carey
- Leo G. Carroll - Fr. Paul Duquesne
- Wesley Addy - Fr. John Fulton
- H.B. Warner - Fr. Jose Sierra
- John McGuire - Fr. Tom Rawleigh
- Dorothy Adams - Mrs. Dunn
- Queenie Smith - Henrietta
- Bill Edwards - Joe
- Director(s):
- Douglas Sirk
- Writer(s):
- Emmett Lavery
- Producer(s):
- Douglas Sirk
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