The Missionary

Release Date:

Nov 2, 1982

MPAA Rating:

R

Running Time:

1:30

Genre:

Comedy

Director:

Richard Loncraine

Cast:

Michael Palin	The Reverend Charles Fortescue
Maggie Smith	Lady Isabel Ames
Trevor Howard	Lord Henry Ames
Denholm Elliott	The Bishop
Michael Hordern	Slatterthwaite
Graham Crowden	The Reverend Fitzbanks
Phoebe Nicholls	Deborah Fitzbanks
Tricia George	Ada
Valerie Whittington	Emmeline
Rosamund Greenwood	Lady Fermleigh
David Suchet	Corbett
Roland Culver	Lord Fermleigh
Derrick O'Connor	Gym Trainer

Producers:

George Harrison , Denis O'Brien , Michael Palin , Neville C. Thompson

Writers:

Michael Palin

Language:

English

Related Programs:

The Sting

Heavens Above!

Reverend Charles Fortescue, a missionary, is called back to England after spending 10 years in an African village teaching to the natives. He learns his new assignment is to minister in a slum to prostitutes and the funding to coming from Lady Ames, a wealthy woman he met while sailing from Africa to England. Reverend Fortescue soon learns that the lady's money comes with a catch, she will only fund the mission is he agrees to spice up her dormant sex life.

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