Hard to figure why anyone, even one as square as Stanley Kramer, would be interested in making this movie in any year later than 1931. On trial for the murder of a vivacious young nun (Kathleen Quinlan), a self-defrocked priest (Dick Van Dyke) reveals in a series of flashbacks the spiritual strife, the intellectual irritation, and the carnal anguish of working in the same parish alongside so outgoing, so outspoken, so common-sensible a woman. The surprise of the ending is not that he didn't kill her after all; it's that he didn't bed her either. Kramer seems to believe that our innate gossip's interest in did-he-or-didn't-he is so strong that it wasn't necessary to phrase the action, as is his custom, into a Big Issue — for instance, should priests be allowed to marry? Maureen Stapleton, Beau Bridges. (1979) — Duncan Shepherd
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