Brother Orchid

• 6.4 Comedy
• 1940-06-07
• 88 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

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)

Director:

Lloyd Bacon

Writer:

Richard Macaulay Jerry Wald Earl Baldwin