Going My Way

thumb Going My Way is a 1944 film about a new young priest taking over for an established old veteran at a financially failing Church in a tough neighborhood who gains support and inspires his superior. Directed by Leo McCarey. Written by Frank Butler. Bing's "little angels" - the roughest gang this side of reform school !  (taglines) Father Chuck O'Malley [to Father Fitzgibbons as he goes to chip a golf shot out of a sand trap] Keep your head down now, father. And watch your language. Father Fitzgibbons I'm sure that the way to say what I'd like to say will occur to me after you've gone. A golf course is nothing but a poolroom moved outdoors. Hope? You know, Chuck, when you're young, it's easy to keep the fires of hope burning bright. But at my age, you're lucky if the pilot light doesn't go out. You know how to manage these old fussbudgets. Take him out on the golf course. Bring him out in the fresh air. Dialogue Father Fitzgibbons: I gave them both my blessing. Father Chuck O'Malley: And they gave you the bird. Father Fitzgibbons: Yeah. Ted Haines Sr.: Son, never loan money to a church. As soon as you start to close in on them, everybody thinks you're a heel. Ted Haines Jr.: Well, aren't you? Ted Haines Sr.: Yeah.Ted Haines Jr.: He wants to tear down the church and make a parking lot out of it. Can you imagine it? He's a very disliked man. I'm sort of following in his footsteps.Father Chuck O'Malley: Junior, hmm?Ted Haines Jr.: Yeah.Ted Haines Sr.: Where have you been the last two weeks?Ted Haines Jr.: Well, dad, I've been in a blue heaven dancing on a pink cloud. She came in on a moonbeam.Ted Haines Sr.: That's a lie. I had you followed.Ted Haines Jr.: That wasn't cricket, dad. When you were my age, I didn't follow you around.Father Chuck O'Malley: Here, take this. [Gives a spoonful of medicine to Father Fitzgibbon] That'll keep the pilot light burning.Father Fitzgibbons: Yes, it ought to. Tastes like it has kerosene in it.Father Fitzgibbons: Well, did you make your parish calls?Father Chuck O'Malley: Oh, yes. Mrs. McGonigle's rheumatism is kicking up again. I told her to bury a potato in the back yard.Father Fitzgibbons: That's for warts.Father Chuck O'Malley: That's what she said.Father Chuck O'Malley: Poor young Ted has been wounded in Africa.Father Fitzgibbons: Ah, too bad.Father Chuck O'Malley: They're shipping him home.Father Fitzgibbons: Fine, upstanding young fellow. Maybe they'll decorate him.Father Chuck O'Malley: Nnnno, I doubt it. Some friend of his ran over him in a jeep.Father Chuck O'Malley: Mr. Haines is going to give us a mortgage to take care of the difference.Ted Haines Sr.: That's right, father. He convinced me I have a heart. And, after all, it wouldn't be a church without a mortgage.Father Fitzgibbons''': That's right. That's right. Taglines Bing's "little angels" - the roughest gang this side of reform school! When the St. Louis Browns lost Bing, the Cardinal got a good singer! Cast Bing Crosby — Father Chuck O'Malley Barry Fitzgerald — Father Fitzgibbon Frank McHugh — Father Timothy O'Dowd James Brown — Ted Haines, Jr. Gene Lockhart — Ted Haines, Sr. Jean Heather — Carol James/Haines Porter Hall — Mr. Belknap Fortunio Bonanova — Tomaso Bozanni Eily Malyon — Mrs. Carmody Robert Mitchell Boychoir — St. Dominic's Church Choir Risë Stevens — Genevieve Linden (Jenny Tuffel) Stanley Clements — Tony Scaponi William Frawley — Max Dolan Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer — Herman Langer External links 0036872 Going My Way going_my_way Going My Way 20120 Going My Way Category:1944 American films Category:American comedy-drama films Category:Best Picture Academy Award winners Category:Films whose writers won Best Story Academy Award Category:Films about Catholicism Category:United States National Film Registry films Category:Films about priests Category:Films directed by Leo McCarey Category:Films whose writers won Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award Category:American musical comedy films Category:Films set in New York City Category:1944 English-language films