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| Warner Bros. (1940) | |||||
| Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | |||||
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| Ann Sothern | Florence 'Flo' Addams | |
| Humphrey Bogart | Jack Buck | |
| Edward G. Robinson | Little John T. 'Johnny' Sarto | |
| 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 | |
| Joseph Crehan | Brother MacEwen | |
| Wilfred Lucas | Brother MacDonald | |
| Tom Tyler | Curley Matthews |
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| Producer | Mark Hellinger
Hal B. Wallis |
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| Writer | Earl Baldwin
Richard Connell Jerry Wald |
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| Cinematography | Tony Gaudio
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| Musician | Heinz Roemheld
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With lots of spiffy patter and a colorful array of underworld types, Brother Orchid spoofs the gangster genre as it serves its most hard-boiled crime icon sunny side up. Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar plays racketeer Little John Sarto, who poses as Brother Orchid and lays low at a monstery when a turf war gets hot. Humphrey Bogart, on the verge of The Maltese Falcon stardom, again plays a second banana with a gun - and ideas about taking over Sarto's mob. And Ann Sothern is delightfully scatterbrained as Sarto's devoted doll. Gags, gats, genuflection, all are directed in cheerfully knockabout style by Lloyd Bacon. Oh, brother, what great fun! |
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