Almost wish I hadn't read the book before seeing the film, as it's impossible not compare the two while watching. The visual storytelling is often breathtaking, occasionally veering into heavy-handedness. Much of the complexity (and meaning) is lost from the novel, but the emotional power is unabated.

The photography is beautiful and the whine/brandy scene is a minor masterpiece of cruel comic tension, but on the whole it never captures me as much as I expect it to.

A beautifully photographed but rather dour picture based on The Power and the Glory. Ford said this was one of his personal favorites among his work. It's a deeply personal story of a man holding on to his faith amid the encroaching darkness. Everything here is understated, and Ford's willingness to follow his maxim (I let the pictures do the talking) is more in evidence here than in almost any of his other sound films.

Ford's sanctification of a Mexican whisky priest, from the Greene novel, _The Power and the Glory_. It is Ford's highest-striving movie, which for him will have to mean his most experimentally Expressionistic. (It is also, as he stubbornly maintained in the face of public and critical rejection, his personal favorite.) Seldom on screen has such intellectual naiveté been put across with such visual suavity.

Interesting attempt at doing something different that doesn't quite work