Going My Way
Going My Wayis a1944 filmabout a new young priest taking over for an established old veteran at a financially failing Church in a tough neighborhood who gains support and inspires his superior.
- Directed byLeo McCarey.Written byFrank Butler.
Father Chuck O'Malley
[edit]- [to Father Fitzgibbons as he goes to chip a golf shot out of a sand trap]Keep your head down now, father. And watch your language.
Father Fitzgibbons
[edit]- I'm sure that the way to say what I'd like to say will occur to me after you've gone.
- A golf course is nothing but a poolroom moved outdoors.
- Hope? You know, Chuck, when you're young, it's easy to keep the fires of hope burning bright. But at my age, you're lucky if the pilot light doesn't go out.
- You know how to manage these old fussbudgets. Take him out on the golf course. Bring him out in the fresh air.
Dialogue
[edit]- Father Fitzgibbons:I gave them both my blessing.
- Father Chuck O'Malley: And they gave you the bird.
- Father Fitzgibbons:Yeah.
- Ted Haines Sr.:Son, never loan money to a church. As soon as you start to close in on them, everybody thinks you're a heel.
- Ted Haines Jr.:Well, aren't you?
- Ted Haines Sr.:Yeah.
- Ted Haines Jr.:He wants to tear down the church and make a parking lot out of it. Can you imagine it? He's a very disliked man. I'm sort of following in his footsteps.
- Father Chuck O'Malley:Junior, hmm?
- Ted Haines Jr.:Yeah.
- Ted Haines Sr.:Where have you been the last two weeks?
- Ted Haines Jr.:Well, dad, I've been in a blue heaven dancing on a pink cloud. She came in on a moonbeam.
- Ted Haines Sr.:That's a lie. I had you followed.
- Ted Haines Jr.:That wasn't cricket, dad. When you were my age, I didn't follow you around.
- Father Chuck O'Malley:Here, take this.[Gives a spoonful of medicine to Father Fitzgibbon]That'll keep the pilot light burning.
- Father Fitzgibbons:Yes, it ought to. Tastes like it has kerosene in it.
- Father Fitzgibbons:Well, did you make your parish calls?
- Father Chuck O'Malley:Oh, yes. Mrs. McGonigle's rheumatism is kicking up again. I told her to bury a potato in the back yard.
- Father Fitzgibbons:That's for warts.
- Father Chuck O'Malley:That's what she said.
- Father Chuck O'Malley:Poor young Ted has been wounded in Africa.
- Father Fitzgibbons:Ah, too bad.
- Father Chuck O'Malley:They're shipping him home.
- Father Fitzgibbons:Fine, upstanding young fellow. Maybe they'll decorate him.
- Father Chuck O'Malley:Nnnno, I doubt it. Some friend of his ran over him in a jeep.
- Father Chuck O'Malley:Mr. Haines is going to give us a mortgage to take care of the difference.
- Ted Haines Sr.:That's right, father. He convinced me I have a heart. And, after all, it wouldn't be a church without a mortgage.
- Father Fitzgibbons:That's right. That's right.
Taglines
[edit]- Bing's "little angels" - the roughest gang this side of reform school!
- When the St. Louis Browns lost Bing, the Cardinal got a good singer!
Cast
[edit]- 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/Haines
- Porter Hall— Mr. Belknap
- Fortunio Bonanova— Tomaso Bozanni
- Eily Malyon— Mrs. Carmody
- Robert Mitchell Boychoir— St. Dominic's Church Choir
- Risë Stevens— Genevieve Linden (Jenny Tuffel)
- Stanley Clements— Tony Scaponi
- William Frawley— Max Dolan
- Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer— Herman Langer
