FILMOGRAPHY: flying padre

FLYING PADRE

Flying Padre is a 1951 short subject black-and-white documentary film. It is the second picture directed by Stanley Kubrick, after Day of the Fight. The film is nine minutes long.

The protagonist of Flying Father is a Catholic priest in rural New Mexico, Father FredStadtmuller. This has many parishes in charge and there is much distance between them, so to travel from an isolated population to another, using a plane called "spirit of St. Joseph." In short we are shown how to provide spiritual guidance, gives sermons at funerals, and once we see him using his plane as an emergency ambulance carrying a sick child and her mother to hospital.