Souls in Conflict (1954) User Reviews

A Billy Graham Sermon Dressed Up As A Film.

[jimdoyle111 · 23 August 2007]

'Conflict Of Souls' has three story threads about typically English characters who find God after attending a Billy Graham mission at Haringay in 1954. It tries hard but keeps stopping to preach and the actors all look like they would rather be doing something else and apart from stock shots and one scene in a churchyard, the whole thing is rather studio-bound. The script is poor and the situations a little too contrived. (Everyone reads the newspaper headlines about Billy Graham aloud in order that a conversation about God can begin.) And the Christians who become converted do so a little too easily and don't ask any questions or understand their motives and they are all a little too twee. Billy Graham is featured delivering a dynamite sermon and you can feel his passion and feeling for his subject – but that makes the other characters look even wimpier than they are. If I were a Christian I would want to shout it from the rooftops like Billy Graham and tell everyone about the benefits I felt from being Christian – instead the converts in this film all drift around all moon-faced, not helped by the garish colour photography, and say they don't really understand, but then I suppose it is meant for an audience who are already worshippers and just want a feeling of comfort. "Wiretapper" took a better approach and "Two A Penny" had Cliff Richard and Dora Bryan, but it does provide a look at a kind of England that no longer exists.

Excellent Movie For Christians

[climbingivy · 10/10 · 28 August 2014]

"Souls In Conflict" is an excellent movie for Christians to watch, and as a tool for spreading Christianity.Yes it is outdated.The movie was made in 1954.But that is the movie's charm.I believe as a Christian that the message is more important than the age of the content,for God's love for us does not change with time.I read a review for this movie, and the reviewer seemed hung up on the time period for the movie.The reviewer did not understand the film's intent and message.The message of this fine Christian movie is that no matter who you are or your personal circumstances in life,God's love for you does not change.He wants us to seek him and ask for his help and love through his only begotten son Jesus Christ.Yes the stories are hokey and corny ,but in these perverse and savage times that we live in, it is wonderful and refreshing to watch a gentle film about man seeking God.Note that Joan Winmill Brown is in this movie and that gives it an extra plus in my eyes.Billy Graham and his library of Worldwide pictures is important to me.Please I implore you to give this rare gem of a movie a chance even though it is old fashioned and somewhat corny.I have this movie.