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The Hoodlum Priest (1961)
Directed by Irvin Kershner
“The most fantastic story the screen has ever told AND IT'S TRUE right down to its last jolt!”
Drama · 1h 41m
Venturing into some of the roughest slums of St. Louis, Jesuit priest Rev. Charles Dismas Clark dedicates himself to helping young ex-convicts who are struggling to rejoin a society that fears and rejects them. An especially wrenching case for the Reverend is Billy Lee Jackson, a troubled thief whose personal demons constantly tempt him back to a life of crime — and may ultimately make him pay the highest price for a few desperate decisions.
Cast
Don Murray
Father Charles Dismas Clark
Larry Gates
Louis Rosen
Cindi Wood
George Hale
Keir Dullea
Billy Lee Jackson
Logan Ramsey
George Hale
D
Don Joslyn
Pio Gentile
S
Sam Capuano
Mario Mazziotti
V
Vince O'Brien
Assistant District Attorney
Warren Parker
Warden
S
Sam Harris
Witness at Execution (uncredited)
R
Roger Ray
Detective Shattuck
Crew
- Director
- Irvin Kershner
- Screenplay
- Joseph Landon, Don Murray
- Director of Photography
- Haskell Wexler
- Original Music Composer
- Richard Markowitz
- Producer
- Don Murray
Details
- Release date
- 1961-03-26
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Murray-Wood Productions, United Artists