The Power and the Glory (1961)
Directed by Marc Daniels. Starring Laurence Olivier and George C. Scott.
I recently read the Graham Greene novel The Power and the Glory with my book club and it has been one of those books that has stuck with me in the subsequent weeks. Greene might be best known to readers of this blog as the screenwriter for the classic film The Third Man (#25 on “The List”); however, many consider The Power and the Glory to be his masterpiece. I discovered that there was indeed a 1961 film adaptation starring legendary actors Laurence Olivier and George C. Scott. Olivier plays a “whiskey priest” (one of the last left in Mexico during the persecutions of the Church in the 1920s) opposite Scott, the police lieutenant trying to hunt him down. I quickly discovered that this was a “made for TV” movie and the easy ways to stream it for free on Youtube or Tubi were pretty low quality. With caveats related to those issues aside, I still found this adaptation of the novel worth watching.
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