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St. Benny the Dip

Edward J. and Harry Lee Danziger

ComedyCrimeFilm noir

About

St. Benny the Dip is blessed with a marvelous cast. Dick Haymes, Lionel Stander, and Cosmo Topper himself, Roland Young, play a trio of small time hoodlums who disguise themselves as priests to escape a police dragnet. Finding themselves in an abandoned Bowery mission, the threesome take their masquerade to extremes, holding services and feeding the poor. This marvelous tale of redemption also stars a luminous Nina Foch as love interest and Freddie Bartholomew in his final screen appearance. This is perhaps the first and so far only noir-comedy ever made, with some very fine black and white location photography by Don Malkames,

Archive
Internet Archive, in Film noir
Licence or status
Public domain (Creative Commons dedication), as the Internet Archive states it.
Credit
Edward J. and Harry Lee Danziger
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