Hollywood has usually done well with tales of fire-breathing evangelists, and Barbara Stanwyck, helped by her favourite director, Frank Capra, is in great form here as a kind of female Elmer Gantry in a well-made version of John Meehan and Robert Riskin's play 'Bless You Sister', vaguely based on the eventful life of Aimee Semple McPherson. Excellent photography by Joseph Walker, notably in the fire sequence at the end of the film. Film buffs might just spot Dennis O'Keefe (then acting under the name Bud Flanagan) as a man in the audience at one of Stanwyck's impassioned speeches.


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