Nun's Story, The - (Original Trailer)

Nun's Story, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) An Excellent Proving Ground

Advised by Mother Christophe (Beatrice Straight) about her assignment to a mental hospital, Sister Luke (formerly “Gabrielle,” Audrey Hepburn), who hopes to work in the Congo, has a bad encounter with patient “Archangel” (Colleen Dewhurst, in her first movie role), in The Nun’s Story, 1959.

Nun's Story, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) That Little Display Of Pride

Finally stationed in the Congo, Sister Luke (Audrey Hepburn) is disappointed, having learned from Mother Mathilde (Dame Peggy Ashcroft), that she'll be working at the European hospital, rather than with the natives, and with irreverent Dr. Fortunati (Peter Finch), in The Nun's Story, 1959.

Nun's Story, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) I Accuse Myself

Still a postulant at the convent, Gabrielle (Audrey Hepburn), daughter of a leading Belgian surgeon, receives general instructions about the order, specific counsel from Mother Emmanuel (Dame Edith Evans), and news of a difficult step from Sister Margharita (Patricia Collinge), in The Nun's Story, 1959.

Nun's Story, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) A Living Rule

Belgium, 1920's, Dr. Van der Mal (Dean Jagger) delivers daughter Gabrielle (Audrey Hepburn) to her chosen convent, received by Sisters William (Patricia Collinge) and Margharita (Mildred Dunnock), opening Fred Zinnemann's film, from the novel by Kathryn C. Hulme, The Nun's Story, 1959.

Nun's Story, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Too Much Congo Sun

Now at tropical medicine school in Antwerp, Sister Luke (Audrey Hepburn) in the lab with Dr. Goodvaerts (Lionel Jeffries), and her rival Sister Pauline (Margaret Phillips), with the first fleeting appearance of Peter Finch as Dr. Fortunati, in director Fred Zinnemann's The Nun's Story, 1959.