The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
- Released
- 1946-04-04
- Genres
- Drama, Music
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Norman Taurog
- TMDB rating
- 5.6/10 from 9 votes
Cast
- William Powell as Terence Ellerton 'Terry' O'Neill
- Esther Williams as Kay Lorrison
- Angela Lansbury as Dusty Millard
- James Gleason as Snarp
- Lewis Stone as Father Nolan
- Rags Ragland as Fishface
- Frank McHugh as Three Finger
- Slim Summerville as Eel
- Roman Bohnen as Father O'Doul
- Charles Arnt as Cy Nolan - O'Neill's Secretary
- Louis Jean Heydt as Mike Flaherty
- Charles Trowbridge as Uncle Joe Lorrison