List of the best Edith Sharpe movies: Satan Never Sleeps(1962), The Guinea Pig(1948), Francis of Assisi(1961) ... ...
Drama
USA
1962
126 Minutes
Sister Theresa
William Holden Clifton Webb France Nuyen Athene Seyler Martin Benson Edith Sharpe Robert Lee Marie Yang Andy Ho Burt Kwouk Weaver Levy
priest colonel cook nun friend mother dark charming intense melodramatic china mission village bedroom garden war rape religion communism riots
During the Chinese Civil War of 1949, the Communists constantly harass the two priests of a remote Catholic mission outpost.
Drama
1948
97 Minutes
Mrs. Hartley
Richard Attenborough Sheila Sim Bernard Miles Robert Flemyng Cecil Trouncer Edith Sharpe
teen boy schoolmaster schoolteacher father student poor boy brooding uplifting moving england school classroom student-teacher relationship class distinctions bullying mentorship school coming of age growing up underdog
An experiment sets the son (Richard Attenborough) of a British shopkeeper (Bernard Miles) in an exclusive boys school.
Biography
USA
1961
106 Minutes
Bradford Dillman Dolores Hart Stuart Whitman Pedro Armendáriz Cecil Kellaway Eduard Franz Athene Seyler Finlay Currie Mervyn Johns Russell Napier John Welsh
god saint nun priest merchant inspiring powerful italy assisi religion catholic church canonization charity sacrifice rise metamorphosis 13th century
In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.