Gus MacAuliffe, a manager of fighters who doesn't know the young man's true vocation, offers to find him a fight in the ring, but Gil declines.

[5] Gil discovers that the church is desperate to raise funds for two things, a swimming pool for children and an iron lung for a hospital.

Lorenzo's girlfriend, Pearl Gorman, a singer with a drinking habit, is immediately attracted to Gil, but when he doesn't reciprocate, she continues to hit the bottle.

However Catholic groups objected due to the romance subplot so the script was adjusted and the main character became an Episcopalian priest instead.

[7] Filmink argued "This should have been surefire material – the priest is raising money for a hospital, a gangster’s moll falls for him, etc – but the film is wonkily structured and Derek can’t paper over its flaws.