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Brother Orchid is a 1940 American crime / comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Edward G. Robinson, Ann Sothern and Humphrey Bogart, with featured performances by Donald Crisp, Ralph Bellamy and Allen Jenkins. The screenplay was written by Earl Baldwin, with uncredited contributions from Jerry Wald and Richard Macauley, based on a ...
Brother Orchid: Directed by Lloyd Bacon. With Edward G. Robinson, Ann Sothern, Humphrey Bogart, Donald Crisp. 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.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Lloyd Bacon
- 1940-06-08
Both Edward G. Robinson and Humphrey Bogart grumbled when they were assigned to Brother Orchid (1940) by Warner Brothers production executives. Robinson, who had reached stardom in a number of gangster roles since his breakthrough performance in Little Caesar (1930), was tired of playing bulldog-like criminals and mobsters.
- Lloyd Bacon, Hugh Cummings, Dick Mayberry
- Edward G. Robinson
Mob boss Little John Sarto (Edward G. Robinson) cedes control of his territory to Jack Buck (Humphrey Bogart) and leaves town on a grand European tour. Five years later, Sarto tries to take back ...
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- Lloyd Bacon
- Crime, Drama
- Edward G. Robinson
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Gang boss Little John Sarto returns from Europe where he was looking for "class" to find the new gang leader Jack Burns unwilling to relinquish his control. When Sarto puts together a rival gang he gets wounded and seeks refuge in a monastery. He is gradually transformed by the simple, sincere brothers and, after one last gangland appearance ...
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