Brother Orchid

Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sothern, et al.

With lots of spiffy patter and a colorful array of underworld types, Brother Orchid spoofs the gangster 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 The 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, genuflection -- all are directed in cheerfully knockabout style by Lloyd Bacon. Oh, brother, what great fun!

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 883929002702
• Release Date: March 2002
• Rating: Unrated (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Warner Home Video
• Director: Lloyd Bacon
• Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sothern, Donald Crisp, Ralph Bellamy, Allen Jenkins, Charles D. Brown, Cecil Kellaway, Morgan Conway, Richard Lane
• Runtime: 1 hour, 28 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: Black & White; DVD; Original recording remastered; NTSC
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 7.5"