..save ""em from sin...lead ""em to salvation...ell ""em about everything - but not about your whiskey and your women!The film brings together elements of religion, sex and money, and accurately foretells the actual real-life scandals of many tele-evangelists in the last part of the century, including Jimmy Swaggart, Jim and Tammy Bakker, and Oral Roberts, as well as other prominent evangelists in the early and middle of the 20th century (Billy Sunday and Aimee Semple McPherson, and even Billy Graham).This was Welles"" last Hollywood film until the making ofTouch of Evil (1958)ten years later.Plot SynopsisAfter the film""s credits play above waves of water, he film opens with narration by out-of-work, gullible, wandering Irish seaman Michael O""Hara (Orson Welles), the film""s naive, soft-hearted innocent who presents his thoughts as commentary in voice-overs.The highly-praised film, although not a box-office success, was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Ralph Richardson), and Best B/W Cinematography, and won four Oscars: Best Actress (Olivia de Havilland, with her second Best Actress Oscar), Best B/W Art Direction/Set Decoration, Best Dramatic Score, and Best B/W Costume Design.] He injected his wrist with the last remaining bit of Chimera culture ["using his own bloodstream as a petri dish"], and then made plans to travel from Sydney to Atlanta to deliver them safely [to the Center for Disease Control (CDC)], timing his trip so that it would take no longer than 20 hours (the time beyond which he couldn""t be saved by the cure).Mitch""s old man is my dad""s boyhood pal -- his idol, I guess.A small rancher -- kind of a legend in our country.A great hunter, sort of a throwback to Daniel Boone.I used to wish he was my father...Dad""s a big man -- so big that he and I know I can""t fit his shoes, or even come close to him...When I was kicked out of college, I guess Dad gave up hoping Mitch""s qualities might rub off on me.According to Kyle, only Mitch could fulfill his magnate father""s aspirations for a son.He honestly told Lucy about his own personal failings as the number one troublemaker and black sheep of the family - he had a reputation for being a misbehaving, ne""er-do-well playboy, and carried on the tradition of his uncle Joe Hadley who "lived hard and he died hard":It""s easy to talk like this when you""re 6,000 feet above the big poker table.