The Bells of St Marys

The Bells of St Marys

The Bells of St. Mary's works much better for its battle of wills between a parish priest and a head nun than the dopey musical interludes that pepper it, but Bells is still a winning, emotionally satisfying film. This sequel to Going My Way has Father O'Malley (Bing Crosby) taking over the St. Mary's parochial school and finding himself at loggerheads with Sister Benedict (Ingrid Bergman, looking gorgeous even in a habit). There's a wonderful balance to all of this: O'Malley takes a more worldly approach to administration and is wrong just as many times as the nun is when she insists on a more biblical approach. About four subplots suffuse the film, including the story of a young charge from the wrong side of the tracks, and the deteriorating state of St. Mary's in the shadow of a brand-new building (the owner is played by the avuncular Henry Travers). A dear film. –Keith Simanton

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars CLASSIC
BERGMAN AND CROSBY. ALWAYS THOUGHT THIS WAS A BETTER MOVIE THAN "GOING MY WAY". STILL DO!

5 Stars A Beautiful Christmas Classic
One of our all time favorites for years. This movie provides humor, sadness, joy and victory…and there is Bing!

5 Stars An all-time classic!
This is a classic which should be in everyones collection. They don't make them like this anymore!

4 Stars Old-Fashioned (Which Means Pretty Good)
This was a just a plain, nice story, one of those kind I tend to favor simply because there are no "bad guys" yet the story is still interesting. Sometimes that's nice to see.

I expected Ingrid Bergman's character, "Sister Mary," from what the liner notes on the video box said, to be a sort-of villain portraying a hard-line rigid nun but that wasn't the case at all. In fact, in her several philosophical disputes with "Father Chuck O'Malley" (Bing Crosby) I sided with her because she made more sense than the too-Liberal priest who never wanted any misbehaving kid to be disciplined.

The story is a little unrealistic in that a strong-willed business tycoon would not abandon all his business plans and hand over a brand-new million-dollar (today it would be many millions) building to a church. However, it's nice to see!

These kind of old-fashioned films are almost collector's items today.

5 Stars old classic
old classic a spin off from going my way with bing crosby .another classic great movie and a great performance from ingrid .brian

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