The Hoodlum Saint – William Powell DVD

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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 Lorrison (Esther Williams), 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. The Depression’s lows uncovers new plateaus this Vet couldn’t foresee while raking in the big bucks. Spiritual nudges helps Our Man to finally see the light that money can’t buy everything, especially the love and happiness he’s been searching for.

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William Powell makes a rare return to the shady characters he played prior to Philo Vance and Nick Charles in this powerful drama set during the Roaring Twenties. Coming home from the Great War without a job or prospects, reporter Terry O’Neill (Powell) crashes a wedding where socialite Kay Lorrison (Esther Williams) lands him a job on her uncle’s paper. Running a campaign against an unethical tycoon, O’Neill decides to switch sides and leaves Kay behind to join him. Making a fortune on Wall Street, O’Neill gives his old cronies the brush-off, telling them to put their faith in the good thief St. Dismas instead of praying for handouts. Taking his flippant remark to heart, O’Neill’s pals start a charity that a vengeful chanteuse (Angela Lansbury) plans to rob and blame on Terry when he dumps the singer for Kay.

 

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This item is a manufactured-on-demand release. Using recordable CDs & DVDs, the label who owns the rights to these MOD releases, custom burns discs for each order sold. Most titles previously had a pressed release but have lapsed out of print and are now only available on these  MOD discs.

 

 

Additional information

Format

MOD DVD

Release Year

1946

Region Code

DVD: 0/All (Region Free/Worldwide)

Special Features

Manufactured on Demand, NTSC

Genre

Drama

Actor

Angela Lansbury, Esther Williams, William Powell

Movie/TV Title

The Hoodlum Saint