The Left Hand of God
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| Directed by | Edward Dmytryk |
| Screenplay by | Alfred Hayes |
| Based on | The Left Hand of God by William Edmund Barrett |
| Produced by | Buddy Adler |
| Starring | Humphrey Bogart Gene Tierney Lee J. Cobb |
| Cinematography | Franz Planer |
| Edited by | Dorothy Spencer |
| Music by | Victor Young |
| Color process | Color by DeLuxe |
Production company | 20th Century Fox |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,785,000 |
| Box office | $4 million (US) |
The Left Hand of God is a 1955 American drama film. 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.
Set in a small American mission in China in 1947, at the time of the Chinese Civil War, it stars Humphrey Bogart as a hunted man masquerading as a Catholic priest and Gene Tierney in the role of a nurse, with a supporting cast including Lee J. Cobb, Agnes Moorehead, E. G. Marshall, and Carl Benton Reid.
While playing Anne Scott, Tierney became ill. Bogart had a personal experience as he was close to a sister who suffered from mental illness, and, during the production, he fed Tierney her lines and encouraged her to seek help.