{"id":41466,"date":"2026-04-13T09:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41466"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:05:17","slug":"brother-orchid-1940-starring-edward-g-robinson-ann-southern-and-humphrey-bogart-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41466","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Brother Orchid&#8221; (1940) starring Edward G. Robinson, Ann Southern and Humphrey Bogart \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z041326zview_brorchid.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Brother Orchid<\/strong><\/em> (1940)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Lloyd Bacon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Earl Baldwin; Jerry Wald <\/strong>(uncredited)<strong>; Richard Macaulay <\/strong>(uncredited); based on <em>Brother Orchid<\/em> by <strong>Richard Connell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Edward G. Robinson, Ann Sothern, Humphrey Bogart, Donald Crisp, Ralph Bellamy, Cecil Kellaway, John Ridgely <\/strong>and<strong> Tom Tyler.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Not Since &#8220;A Slight Case of Murder&#8221; has there been such a hysterical homicide, such mad mirth!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Little John Sarto rose from the streets to become head of a crime syndicate.\u00a0 He&#8217;s rich.\u00a0 People fear him, but he doesn&#8217;t want that.\u00a0 Sarto craves to be respected.\u00a0 To have&#8230; class.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So Sarto suddenly decides to give up his life of crime and become a gentleman of leisure.\u00a0 Sarto turns his syndicate over to his second in command, John Buck.\u00a0 He tells his girlfriend, Flo that he&#8217;s going to Europe and he&#8217;ll see her when he returns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Things don&#8217;t go as planned in Europe.\u00a0 Every move Sarto makes is a bad one.\u00a0 He loses money on every deal.\u00a0 Five years pass and Sarto is broke.\u00a0 So he heads back to the states where he plans to regain control of his syndicate, and hook back up with Flo.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s been five years.<\/p>\n<p>Flo still loves Sarto, but thought he&#8217;d left for good.\u00a0 So she has a new man.\u00a0 John Buck and the crew felt abandoned when Sarto left.\u00a0 Buck isn&#8217;t going to give up control of the gang.\u00a0 So he puts out a hit on Sarto.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sarto is caught off-guard and barely escapes with his life.\u00a0 He finds himself injured and outside of a monastery.\u00a0 The monks don&#8217;t recognize the infamous crime boss and take him in.\u00a0 Sarto plans to stay there until he heals&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; then he will get his revenge.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Brother Orchid<\/em> is one of five films that Robinson and Bogart made together.\u00a0 It is the only one where neither of them is killed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Brother Orchid<\/strong><\/em> (1940) rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z041326zview_brorchid2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"391\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brother Orchid (1940) Director: Lloyd Bacon Screenplay: Earl Baldwin; Jerry Wald (uncredited); Richard Macaulay (uncredited); based on Brother Orchid by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41467,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41466\/revisions\/41467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}