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'AND THE OSCAR GOES TO...'
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17th Academy Awards
(1944)
Best picture: Going My Way
Starring: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh, James Brown, June Lockhart
Synopsis: Father O'Malley (Bing Crosby) is the new priest at the Church of St Dominic in a working-class New York City neighbourhood. He fails to make a good first impression with crusty (脾气暴躁的) old Father Fitzgibbon (Barry Fitzgerald), who doesn't agree to O'Malley's golf playing, baseball game attending or fishing. But O'Malley starts spiffing up (使焕然一新) the church and its neighbourhood: dealing with the church mortgage, which is in arrears (拖欠), straightening out the street gangs (not as tough as it sounds — major gang activity runs to stealing turkeys off the butcher's cart) and getting the boys to help him start a choir. O'Malley even arranges a big surprise for Fitzgibbon, who's homesick for Ireland. After various ups and downs, their relationship develops into a sound situation.
The film shows eventually that it is necessary in life to learn to accept everyone around you, regardless of their faults and flaws.
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