Story Line
A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.
“They jumped into hell to save part of heaven.”
Top Cast
Spencer Tracy
Father Matthew Doonan
Frank Sinatra
Harry
Kerwin Mathews
Father Joseph Perreau
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Jacques
Grégoire Aslan
Marcel
Alexander Scourby
The Governor
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Rating
6.4/ 10
Release Date
1961-10-18
Runtime
2h 6m
Genres
AdventureDramaThriller
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6/10
•6/6/2025Idealistic priest “Fr. Joseph” (Kerwin Matthews) has arrived on a remote French Polynesian island to take over from the weary and cantankerous old “Fr. Matthew” (Spencer Tracy) whose congregation consists of a leper colony and a prison. When the prie...