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Youthful Father Chuck OMalley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy, but his level gaze and twinkling eyes make it clear that he knows he made the right choice. After joining a parish, OMalleys worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of kids looking for direction and handle the business details of the church-building fund, winning over his aging, conventional superior, Father Fitzgibbon.
Father Fitzgibbon has been the parish priest at St. Dominics in New York City for forty five years. The parish faces financial and social problems which the diocese believes cannot be solved by Father Fitzgibbons traditional and conservative approach to running the parish. The bishop appoints progressive Father OMalley, originally from St. Louis, to, on the surface, assist Father Fitzgibbon at St. Dominics. In reality, Father OMalley has been appointed to lead the parish out of these problems, something that Father Fitzgibbon is unaware, and something that Father OMalley does not want to divulge in letting Father Fitzgibbon continue his work in dignity. Father OMalleys task is made all the more difficult as Father Fitzgibbon does not approve of Father OMalleys ways, both as priest and as a person. In general, Father Fitzgibbon takes a rather strict approach typical to the traditional ways of the church, whereas Father OMalley takes a more compassionate humanistic approach, he who wants to bring people back to the church through more contemporary means rather than the old "fire and brimstone" preachings. However, even Father OMalleys humanism may not be able to deal with the fact that Ted Haines Sr., representing the Knickerbocker Savings and Loan, is thinking of foreclosing on the churchs mortgage for non-payment, money which the church does not have and which it needs to get out of this problem.
Bing Crosby
Father Chuck O'Malley
Barry Fitzgerald
Father Fitzgibbon
Frank McHugh
Father Timothy O'Dowd
James Brown
Ted Haines Jr.
Gene Lockhart
Ted Haines Sr.
Jean Heather
Carol James
Porter Hall
Mr. Belknap
Fortunio Bonanova
Tomaso Bozanni
Eily Malyon
Mrs. Carmody
The Robert Mitchell Boy Choir
Choir
Risë Stevens
Genevieve Linden
Arnet Amos
Singer
Stanley Clements
Tony Scaponi
Adeline De Walt Reynolds
Mrs. Molly Fitzgibbon
Tom Dillon
Police Officer Pat McCarthy
Bobby Dolan Jr.
Joseph
Jimmie Dundee
Fireman
Virginia Farmer
Parishioner
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