The movie was adapted by Paul Osborn[?] from two novels -- Borden Deal[?]'s Dunbar's Cove and William Bradford Huie[?]'s Mud on the Stars. It was directed by Elia Kazan.
... disease, from which he died at the colony. He is the patron of lepers and outcasts, and was recently made the patron of AIDS patients. The world's only Catholic memorial ...