Satan Never Sleeps

SATAN NEVER SLEEPS, but most of the audience did in this rehash of GOING MY WAY. McCarey liked making pictures with Catholic themes (like the Bing Crosby-Barry Fitzgerald film as well as THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S), but he fizzles here with miscasting and an ill-advised story. Priests Holden and Webb are living in 1949 China where the local Communists won't leave them alone. They are at a quiet village on the edge of nowhere, and Lee, the leader of the Reds, is causing trouble. Lee and his thugs come into the mission, smash up the hospital area, wreck the chapel, and top it off when Lee ties Holden to a seat and makes him watch helplessly as Lee rapes Nuyen, the missi...