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Brother Orchid (1940)
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
“We'd like youse to meet Brother Orchid!”
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance · 1h 28m
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
Cast
Edward G. Robinson
Little John T. 'Johnny' Sarto
Ann Sothern
Florence 'Flo' Addams
Humphrey Bogart
Jack Buck
Donald Crisp
Brother Superior
Ralph Bellamy
Clarence P. Fletcher
Allen Jenkins
Willie 'The Knife' Corson
Charles D. Brown
Brother Wren
Cecil Kellaway
Brother Goodwin
Morgan Conway
Philadelphia Powell
Richard Lane
Mugsy O'Day
Paul Guilfoyle
Red Martin
John Ridgely
Texas Pearson
Crew
- Director
- Lloyd Bacon
- Screenplay
- Earl Baldwin
- Writer
- Richard Macaulay, Jerry Wald
- Director of Photography
- Tony Gaudio
- Original Music Composer
- Heinz Roemheld
- Editor
- William Holmes
- Producer
- Mark Hellinger
Details
- Release date
- 1940-06-07
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- The Vitaphone Corporation, Warner Bros. Pictures