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.
Acting
Robinson's volcanic little man energy crammed into a monk's habit.
Writing
Gangster slang colliding with monastery earnestness = accidental poetry.
Director
Lloyd Bacon
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
Paul Guilfoyle
Red Martin
John Ridgely
Texas Pearson
Joseph Crehan
Brother MacEwen
Wilfred Lucas
Brother MacDonald
Tom Tyler
Curley Matthews
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Robinson's fourth gangster film in two years—he was actively trying to escape typecasting even while playing another mobster.
The 'reformed gangster' subgenre exploded post-1934 Production Code, letting studios have their violence and moralize it too.
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