Het episodische levensverhaal van de Iers-Amerikaanse priester Stephen Fermoyle. Vanaf zijn inwijding in 1917 tot aan de vooravond van de Tweede Wereldoorlog krijgt Fermoyle te maken met verschillende tegenslagen. De keiharde werkelijkheid van het leven doet hem regelmatig aan zijn geloof twijfelen. Maar het is niet alleen ellende wat op zijn pad komt. Een ontmoeting met de mooie Annemarie is misschien wel de grootste beproeving. Is de liefde het waard om zijn roeping en carrière aan de kant te schuiven?
Nee, helaas is The Cardinal nog niet beschikbaar op Netflix in Nederland.
| Directing | Otto Preminger | Director |
| Writing | Henry Morton Robinson | Novel |
| Writing | Robert Dozier | Screenplay |
| Production | Otto Preminger | Producer |
| Sound | Jerome Moross | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Leon Shamroy | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Louis R. Loeffler | Editor |
| Art | Lyle R. Wheeler | Production Design |
| Art | Gene Callahan | Set Decoration |
| Production | Martin C. Schute | Associate Producer |
| Production | Bill Barnes | Casting |
| Costume & Make-Up | Donald Brooks | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Robert Jiras | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Frederic Jones | Hairdresser |
| Costume & Make-Up | Dick Smith | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Maurice Seiderman | Makeup Artist |
| Production | Guy Luongo | Production Manager |
| Production | Eva Monley | Production Manager |
| Production | Harrison Starr | Production Manager |
| Production | Paul Waldherr | Production Manager |
| Production | Henry Weinberger | Production Manager |
| Directing | Bryan Coates | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Roberto Fizz | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Hermann Leitner | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Gerry O'Hara | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Bob Vietro | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Erich von Stroheim Jr. | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Joe Marks | Second Assistant Director |
| Art | Fred Bockstahler | Construction Grip |
| Art | Art Cole | Property Master |
| Art | Tom Frewer | Property Master |
| Art | Otto Niedermoser | Art Direction |
| Art | Italo Tomassi | Painter |
| Sound | Morris Feingold | Sound |
| Sound | Walter Goss | Sound |
| Sound | Red Law | Sound |
| Sound | Harold Lewis | Sound |
| Sound | Peter Thornton | Sound Effects Editor |
| Writing | Ring Lardner, Jr. | Screenplay |
| Lighting | Fred Hall | Gaffer |
