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The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
Directed by Norman Taurog
Overview
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.
Rated NR | Length 91 minutes
Actors
William Powell | Esther Williams | Angela Lansbury | James Gleason | Lewis Stone | Rags Ragland | Frank McHugh | Slim Summerville | Roman Bohnen | Charles Arnt | Louis Jean Heydt | Charles Trowbridge | Henry O'Neill | William 'Bill' Phillips | Matt Moore | Trevor Bardette | Addison Richards | Tom Dugan | Emma Dunn | Mary Gordon | Charles D. Brown | Stanley Andrews | Stanley Blystone | Hobart Cavanaugh | Jack Cheatham | Chester Conklin | Heinie Conklin | Byron Foulger | Dwayne Hickman | Russell Hicks | Gladden James | Frank Jenks | Robert Emmett Keane | Norman Leavitt | Frank McLure | Howard M. Mitchell | Rhea Mitchell | Forbes Murray | William H. O'Brien | Robert Emmett O'Connor | Frank Orth | 'Snub' Pollard | Larry Steers | Harry Tenbrook | Will Wright | John George | Theodore Lorch | Kit Guard | Gordon Dumont | William A. Boardway | Leila McIntyre | Wedgwood Nowell | Charles Wagenheim | Constance Weiler | Paul E. Burns | Tom Coleman | Louis Mercier | Alexander Pollard | Georges Renavent | Al Thompson | Arthur Tovey