Brother Orchid

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Brother Orchid is a 1940 American crime-comedy film starring Edward G. Robinson as a gangster who hides in a monastery and undergoes an unexpected moral transformation.

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Brother Orchid canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American film
crime-comedy film
film
basedOn story by Richard Connell
cinematographyBy Tony Gaudio
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Lloyd Bacon
distributor Warner Bros. Pictures
editedBy Owen Marks
featuresCharacterType gangster
monk
filmFormat black-and-white film
filmingStyle studio production
genre comedy film
crime comedy
crime film
hasHumorStyle character-based comedy
situational comedy
hasTheme crime and morality
identity change
redemption
language English
mainCharacter Little John Sarto
mainCharacterPortrayedBy Edward G. Robinson
musicBy Leo F. Forbstein
narrativeLocation monastery
originalLanguage English
partOf Warner Bros. gangster film cycle
plotSummary A gangster hides in a monastery and undergoes a moral transformation.
producer Hal B. Wallis
Mark Hellinger
productionCompany Warner Bros. Pictures
surface form: Warner Bros.
releaseDate 1940-05-03
releaseYear 1940
runtimeMinutes 88
screenwriter Jerry Wald
Richard Connell
setting United States of America
surface form: United States
starring Allen Jenkins
Ann Sothern
Cecil Kellaway
Donald Crisp
Edward G. Robinson
Humphrey Bogart
Ralph Bellamy
timePeriodOfSetting 20th century

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Lloyd Bacon notableWork Brother Orchid
William Keighley notableWork Brother Orchid
Rita Johnson notableWork Brother Orchid