The Left Hand of God is a 1955 drama film made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Buddy Adler, from a screenplay by Alfred Hayes, based on the novel The Left Hand of God by William Edmund Barrett. It stars Humphrey Bogart and Gene Tierney, with a supporting cast including Lee J. Cobb, Agnes Moorehead, E. G. Marshall, and Carl Benton Reid. Jim Carmody is an American pilot in World War II. After crashing his plane in China, he was rescued by a local warlord, General Yang , and became his trusted adviser. However, after one of the general's soldiers kills a... priest, Father O'Shea, Jim decides to desert. Carmody masquerades as the dead priest and manages to escape to a remote mountain village. There he meets missionaries Beryl and David Sigman . Still posing as the priest, he falls in love with attractive mission nurse Anne Scott . Scott feels ashamed because she is also attracted to him. Carmody writes to the bishop, confessing that he is an impostor. Then General Yang arrives, insisting that Carmody rejoin his army or else he will burn down the village.
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| Release date: | September 21, 1955 |
| Directed by: | Edward Dmytryk |
| Runtime: | 87 Minutes |
| Producer: | Maurice Adler |
| Editor: | Dorothy Spencer |
| Music by: | Victor Young |
| Cinematography: | Franz Planer |
| Screenplay by: | Alfred Hayes |
| Adapted from: | The Left Hand of God |
| Genre: | Adventure |