The Song of Bernadette
1943 · 156 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 7,906 VOTES · DIR. Henry King
Overview
In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the Virgin Mary. The pompous government officials think she is nuts, and do their best to suppress the girl and her followers, and the church wants nothing to do with the whole matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the the town, and transforms their lives.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,933 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:02:28 Soubirous.
00:10:25 Soubirous, the miller...
00:18:30 But what if she's not there?
00:23:37 She had a rosary of pearls and a golden crucifix...
00:28:27 and she spoke to me.
00:34:37 This is no joke. Consider what this means to Bernadette.
00:40:54 Yes.
00:45:20 Wouldn't it be appropriate for you to raise your voice?
00:50:04 Now do you understand my position?
00:54:48 the statue of the Blessed Virgin in the parish church."
01:01:09 - Excuse me, Your Reverence. - What do you want? Who are you?
01:06:51 Why didn't he ask the Lady to make the rock into a white horse...
01:16:48 - There you are. - But, Doctor, I never knew how to read.
01:24:08 At sunrise, that whole hillside will look like a sugar loaf crawling with ants.
01:30:39 They go to dances, to festivals, meet young men.
01:36:46 - Leave her alone! - Please!
01:42:28 you need not waste it on me.
01:48:02 And now, please, may I have the bottle?
01:53:52 But Madame Millet's going to take me as housemaid.
01:59:19 - Thank you. - A Saint Christopher. That's what we gave her!
02:06:28 In the world, what would you have liked to have been?
02:12:32 But I do not. I cannot.
02:20:02 "At a location known as Massabielle, I rested...
02:24:42 I'll be alone.
Cast & Characters
Jennifer Jones
Bernadette Soubirous
Charles Bickford
Father Peyramale
William Eythe
Antoine Nicolau
Vincent Price
Prosecutor Vital Dutour
Lee J. Cobb
Dr. Dozous
Gladys Cooper
Sister Marie Therese Vauzous
Anne Revere
Louise Soubirous
Roman Bohnen
François Soubirous
Mary Anderson
Jeanne Abadie
Patricia Morison
Empress Eugenie
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,933
Dialogue density12.4 lines / min
First line00:02:28
Final line02:24:42
Production Record
DirectorHenry King
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2,000,000
IMDb votes7,906