Satan Never Sleeps

Satan Never Sleeps

125 mins | Drama | Feb. 22, 1962

A priest arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl who has joined him along the way. His job is to relieve the existing priest, who is now too old and weak to continue with the upkeep of the church. However, Communist soldiers arrive at the mission and seize it as a command post. Their leader rapes the native girl and impregnates her, only later to realize that Communism is no good for him. In the end, the foursome flee to the border, but are pursued by Communist forces along the way.

Satan Never Sleeps

125 mins | Drama | Feb. 22, 1962

Satan Never Sleeps
A priest arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl who has joined him along the way. His job is to relieve the existing priest, who is now too old and weak to continue with the upkeep of the church. However, Communist soldiers arrive at the mission and seize it as a command post. Their leader rapes the native girl and impregnates her, only later to realize that Communism is no good for him. In the end, the foursome flee to the border, but are pursued by Communist forces along the way.
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers 20th Century Fox
Original title Satan Never Sleeps
Directors Leo McCarey
Writers Pearl S. Buck, Claude Binyon, Leo McCarey

Cast

William Holden

as Father O'Banion

Clifton Webb

as Father Bovard

France Nuyen

as Siu Lan

Athene Seyler

as Sister Agness

Martin Benson

as Kuznietsky

Edith Sharpe

as Sister Theresa

Robert Lee

as Chung Ren

Marie Yang

as Ho San's Mother