BROTHER ORCHID

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• Release Year: 1940
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
• Plot: With lots of spiffy patter and a colorful array of underworld types, Brother Orchid spoofs the ganster 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 monastery when a turf war gets hot. Humphrey Bogart, on the verge of 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, genuflecttion, all are directed in cheerfully knockabout style by Lloyd Bacon. Oh, Brother, what great fun!
• Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Ann Sothern, Humphrey Bogart, Donald Crisp, Ralph Bellamy, Allen Jenkins, Charles D. Brown, Cecil Kellaway, Morgan Conway, Richard Lane, Paul Guilfoyle, John Ridgely, Joseph Crehan, Wilfred Lucas, Tom Tyler, Dick Wessel, Granville Bates, Paul Phillips, Don Rowan, Nanette Vallon, Tim Ryan, Joe Caits, Pat Gleason, Tommy Baker, Charles De Ravenne, John Qualen, Jimmy Aye, Sidney Bracey, Harlan Briggs, Louise Carter, Charles Coleman, G. Pat Collins, Gino Corrado, Jean Del Val, Frank Faylen, James Flavin, Mary Gordon, Creighton Hale, George Haywood, Max Hoffman Jr., William Hopper, Armand Kaliz, Jack Kenny, Sam McDaniel, Edward McWade, Frank Moran, Leonard Mudie, Louis Natheaux, Terry Nibert, Edgar Norton, Frank Orth, Lee Phelps, Paul Porcasi, Georges Renavent, George Sorel, Claude Wisberg, Lloyd Bacon
• Director: Lloyd Bacon
• Runtime: 1:27
• Company: Warner Bros. Pictures
• Media Format: Movie