This timeless classic swept the Oscars, taking Best Picture, as well as honors for director Leo McCarey and the stars Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald. Crosby plays a crooning priest who joins a struggling parish and teaches local toughs to be a choir.

• 2 hr 7 min
• Directed by

  Leo Mc Carey
• Written by Frank Butler, Frank Cavett, Leo Mc Carey

• Starring

  Bing Crosby

  ,

  Barry Fitzgerald

  ,

  Rise Stevens

  ,

  Gene Lockhart

  ,

  Frank Mc Hugh

  ,

  James Brown

  ,

  Jean Heather

  ,

  Eily Malyon

  ,

  Stanley Clements

  ,

  Fortunio Bonanova

  ,

  Anita Sharp Bolster

  ,

  Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer

  ,

  Porter Hall

  ,

  Jimmie Dundee

  ,

  William Frawley

  ,

  Martin Garralaga

  ,

  Julie Gibson

  ,

  Gibson Gowland

  ,

  Sybil Lewis

  ,

  Hugh Maguire

  ,

  George Mc Kay

  ,

  Jack Norton

  ,

  Adeline De Walt Reynolds

  ,

  William Henry