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Brother orchid

Racketeer Little John Sarto poses as Brother Orchid and lays low at a monastery when a turf war gets hot.

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  • "An offbeat gangster comedy/drama about an ex-mob boss who is double-crossed by a former lieutenant. Wounded while escaping, he is taken in by the members of a remote monastery and finds the peace he sought in the outside world, until circumstances force him to confront the lieutenant one last time."
  • "Racketeer Little John Sarto poses as Brother Orchid and lays low at a monastery when a turf war gets hot."@en
  • ""Gang leader Little John Sarto quits his protection association to see the world as a gentleman, leaving his girlfriend Flo Addams behind. After five years of chasing 'class, ' Sarto returns broke to resume his leadership, only to find that Jack Buck has taken over and that Flo has prospered in her own business with cowpoke Clarence Fletcher. Sarto organizes a new gang and is rapidly muscling in on his old territory when Flo inadvertently sets him up as a target for Buck's boys. Badly wounded, Sarto manages to crawl to a monastery where, rechristened Brother Orchid, he is nursed back to health and influenced by the kindness of the good brothers, he begins to change his outlook on life. When he learns that Flo is to marry Clarence and that the monastery is suffering financial hardship because Buck refuses to allow the brothers to market their flowers, however, Sarto leaves his sanctuary, stops the wedding and, with Clarence's help, breaks up the protective association. His task accomplished, Sarto decides that he has found true class within the walls of the monastery, and so leaves Flo to Clarence and returns to his life as Brother Orchid in the Order of the Flowers"--AFI catalog, 1931-1940."@en
  • ""Bogie" style gangster story about the New York rackets and one crime boss' road to spiritual rehabilitation."@en
  • "When mobster Little John Sarto goes to Europe to develop "real class," his gang is taken over by another gangster who plans to kill Sarto upon his return; but Sarto manages to escape to a secluded monastery that preaches goodwill, love and forgiveness."

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  • "Adaptation"@en
  • "Gangster"@en
  • "Drama"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Crime"@en
  • "Gangster films"
  • "Gangster films"@en
  • "French language materials"
  • "Gangster films and programs"@en
  • "Film adaptations"@en
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Comedy films"
  • "Comedy films"@en
  • "Fiction films"@en
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Features"@en
  • "Films for the hearing impaired"
  • "Comedy"@en

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  • "Brother orchid"@en
  • "Brother Orchid"
  • "Brother Orchid"@en

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