The Left Hand of God

The Left Hand of God
Original film poster
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
Release date	September 2, 1955 (1955-09-02) (Los Angeles)[1]
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1,785,000[2]
Box office	$4 million (US)[3]

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 a time of 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.