The Fugitive

A priest in Latin America is pursued by a ruthless police lieutenant carrying out the dictates of an oppressive, anti-clerical government.
The Fugitive
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: February 16, 2012
  • Originally Released: 1947
  • Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)

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User Ratings: 576
Rating: B+ -- John Ford has made a moody, grim film out of Greene's novel, feature a strong performance by Henry Fonda. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Apr 25, 2011
Rating: C -- Turgid, slow moving, lacking in dramatic tension, too grating and simplistic in its obvious religious symbols, and losing its moral urgency from the novel. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
May 16, 2006
John Ford's The Fugitive is as beautiful a film as was ever lensed. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Feb 3, 2012
Rating: 4/5 -- Unusual, rarely seen John Ford minor classic with Fonda.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Apr 23, 2007
Rating: A- -- John Ford’s underrated adaptation of Catholic novelist Graham Greene's masterpiece The Power and the Glory… softens and conventionalizes Greene's difficult parable, but still packs spiritual punch. Full Review
Decent Films Guide
May 30, 2003

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When director John Ford and actor Henry Fonda collaborate, audiences know they are in for a powerful screen experience. To such films as The Grapes of Wrath, My Darling Clementine and Fort Apache add this brave, unsparing, magnificently lensed (by Mexico's Gabriel Figueroa) work. Based on Graham Greene's novel The Power and the Glory, the story follows a priest (Fonda) in Latin America pursued by a ruthless police lieutenant carrying out the dictates of an oppressive, anti-clerical government. There's another fugitive as well -- an American killer on the run -- and the paths of the two hunted men cross with fateful consequences.

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Although some of his earlier films such as THE GRAPES OF WRATH had stirred controversy, John Ford had never before dealt with potentially incendiary religious issues as he does in this adaptation of Graham Greene's allegorical masterpiece THE POWER AND THE GLORY. The virulent anticlericalism of a Latin American country's ruling regime has driven from the country all the region's priests but one (Henry Fonda), who has taken refuge in an abandoned village church. When he's discovered by a woman (Dolores Del Rio) seeking to have her child baptized, he agrees to christen all of the village infants. A police lieutenant (Pedro Armendariz) arrives in the area, intent on killing the priest and planning to smoke him out by threatening to execute a few symbolic hostages in every village until he is turned in. Although the fugitive quickly comes forward to surrender, the lieutenant fails to recognize and arrest him. The frightened priest scrambles to leave the country but finds himself being pursued by a beggar who has found a wanted poster bearing his picture. Fonda is well suited to the role of the tormented priest in a film that has marked similarities to the director's THE INFORMER. Gabriel Figueroa, the éminence grise of Mexican cinematographers, masterfully captures the visual bounty of the Mexican landscape. Ford, who considered this underrated work one of his best, sculpts the starkly beautiful imagery and the understated performance of his star into a heartfelt expressionistic portrait graced with a shadowy fringe of the sacred.

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