--- title: 'Change of Habit (1969)' type: 'film' director: 'William A. Graham' released: '1969-01-01' runtime_minutes: 93 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Music' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/change-of-habit-1969' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065537/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Change of Habit (1969) 1969 · 93 min · Drama, Music · United States ## Synopsis Change of Habit is a 1969 American crime drama musical film directed by William A. Graham, and starring Elvis Presley and Mary Tyler Moore. Written by James Lee, S.S. Schweitzer, and Eric Bercovici, based on a story by John Joseph and Richard Morris, the film is about three Catholic nuns, preparing for their final vows, who are sent to a rough inner city neighborhood dressed as lay missionaries to work at a clinic run by John Carpenter, a young doctor. Their lives become complicated by the realities they face in the inner city, and by Carpenter who falls in love with Sister Michelle Gallagher, one of the nuns. ## Credits - **Director:** [William A. Graham](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-a-graham) - **Screenplay:** [John Joseph](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-joseph) - **Original Music Composer:** [Billy Goldenberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/billy-goldenberg) - **Producer:** [Joe Connelly](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-connelly) - **Director of Photography:** [Russell Metty](https://cinepixo.com/people/russell-metty) - **Editor:** [Douglas Stewart](https://cinepixo.com/people/douglas-stewart) ## Cast - [Ed Asner](https://cinepixo.com/people/ed-asner) - [Mary Tyler Moore](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-tyler-moore) - [Jane Elliot](https://cinepixo.com/people/jane-elliot) - [Barbara McNair](https://cinepixo.com/people/barbara-mcnair) - [Elvis Presley](https://cinepixo.com/people/elvis-presley) - [Ruth McDevitt](https://cinepixo.com/people/ruth-mcdevitt) - [Leora Dana](https://cinepixo.com/people/leora-dana) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/change-of-habit-1969 Film facts: Wikidata (Q862691); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.