Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302296716
Format: Color
ISBN: 6302296714
Label: Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fox Home Entertainment
Release Date: 1989-11-16
Running Time: 87
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment

Customer Rating:
Summary: The Left Hand of God
Comment: I first saw this movie as a kid when it was first released. I have seen it a number of times since then and always enjoy it. Is the casting a little 'off'? Certainly! Is the idea of Bogart as a priest somewhat strange? Absolutely! But does he play the role well? Yes! Is Lee J. Cobb amusing as a Chinese Warlord? Indeed! Is his make-up exaggerated? Yes, beyond belief!!! But again, does he play his role well? Yes! And the others, do they play their roles well? No question! I read the reviews posted here and find that what others say is true - but - this is still an entertaining film, reasonably well acted, and has a superb cast. This is not a movie to be dismissed. It stands the test of time and it stands up to be reseeing. I whole heartedly recommend it to everyone.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Bogart 's performance is overly restrained and unrewarding...
Comment: "The Left Hand of God" is one of these barren efforts and Bogart is the victim of an inconsequential script that find him portraying an American pilot forced down in China during World War II who joins up with a Chinese warlord (Lee J. Cobb). When Bogart decides to escape, he assumes the garb of a murdered priest and finds seclusion in a remote mission...

The role has great potential for suspense as to face one crisis after another as a result of his masquerade, but for some reason his performance is overly restrained and unrewarding...

Gene Tierney worked for an enviable number of great director: Fritz Lang, John Ford, Josef Von Sternberg, Ernst Lubitsch, Otto Preminger, Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Clarence Brown... Although her roles were not very often pivotal to their subject, and only a few of her films are among these directors' best remembered works, it all adds up to the intriguing enigma that was this woman's great attraction...

This exotic classic beauty is here a nurse called Anne Scott and she is expecting with Dr. David Sigman (E.G. Marshall) and his wife Beryl (Agnes Moorehead) the arrival of Father O'Shea...

The Story is set in 1947, in a remote province of China disturbed by the civil war...

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Left Hand of God VHS ~ Edward Dmytryk [VHS Tape]
Comment: I have been looking for this movie for many years. Tape was received in excellent shape and I have enjoyed seeing the movie again after about 51 years.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Only one point to make
Comment: This is one of the good ones. Moviegoers who are not traditionally devout, who find no comfort in organized religion, often find they can't stand movies with any religious content. This is a good one, though. Humphrey Bogart plays an American pilot who has found he has only one way to escape the Chinese warlord (Lee J. Cobb? LEE J. COBB? Yeah, really!) who has practically owned him for years. Rent it first, if you like: this is one of the good ones, though.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Some Flaws, but Surprisingly Good
Comment: The Story: Humphrey Bogart plays a pilot who crashes in rural China, is captured/enslaved/employeed by the local warlord (Lee J. Cobb), escapes, and poses as the new priest coming to a mission, where there is a doctor (E.G. Marshall), the doctor's wife (Agnes Moorehead), and an assistant (Gene Tierney). Bogart never fits well into the role of the priest, but then that misfitting is fitting, as a pilot-turned-enslaved soldier would be awkward if he posed as a priest. Tierney falls guiltily in love with the new "priest", while Bogart is surprisingly passionate and effective in his efforts to help the local villagers.

Commentary: This is a quiet story with much tension but little action. It does not give the viewer enough of Bogart interacting with the villagers to show why they admire him as much as they do. Cobb is totally convincing as a ruthless warlord, but totally UNconvincing as a ruthless CHINESE warlord. Despite these flaws, this is a quietly memorable film because it tells its little story well.

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