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St Benny The Dip

Benny (Dick Haymes), Monk (Lionel Stander) and Matthew (Roland Young) are three small-time crooks trying to escape a police dragnet in New York City.    

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Benny (Dick Haymes), Monk (Lionel Stander) and Matthew (Roland Young) are three small-time crooks trying to escape a police dragnet in New York City. After hiding in a church and taking minister's suits and dog collars, they emerge, dressed as priests, and find shelter in an abandoned Bowery mission. When beat cops mistake them for real ministers sent to restore the soup kitchen, they're forced to go along with repairs, holding services and feeding the poor. They have to decide whether to stay, steal the mission money and run, or... change their lives. As with Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, when the bishop he has robbed lets him go, it's the first time they've been treated with respect and had a chance to do good work. The question is whether the police detectives or junior priests will turn them in before they even have a chance.


Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
Produced by Edward J. Danziger (producer), Harry Lee Danziger (producer)
Written by George Auerbach (story), John Roeburt (fr) (writer)
Music by Robert W. Stringer
Cinematography: Don Malkames
Production company: Danziger Productions Ltd.
Distributed by United Artists
Release dates: August 24, 1951
Running time: 80 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English

Casting
Dick Haymes as Benny
Nina Foch as Linda Kovacs
Roland Young as Matthew
Lionel Stander as Monk Williams
Freddie Bartholomew as Reverend Wilbur
Oskar Karlweis as Mr. Kovacs
William A. Lee as Police Sergeant Monahan
Dick Gordon as Reverend Miles
Jean Casto as Mrs. Mary Williams
Eddie Wells as Patrolman McAvoy
James Bender as House Detective