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St. Benny the Dip is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Edgar George Ulmer released in USA on 24 august 1951 with Dick Haymes

St. Benny the Dip (1951)

St. Benny the Dip
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Released in USA 24 august 1951
Length 1h20
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Crime
Rating57% 2.8558952.8558952.8558952.8558952.855895

St. Benny the Dip is a 1951 American film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. The film is also known as Escape If You Can in the United Kingdom.

The film opens with one of the few depictions of the East River maritime area of New York City many years before it became the South Street Seaport tourist attraction.

Synopsis

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.

Actors

Dick Haymes

(Benny)Nina Foch

(Linda Kovacs)Roland Young

(Matthew)Lionel Stander

(Monk Williams)Freddie Bartholomew

(Reverend Wilbur)Oskar Karlweis

(Mr. Kovacs)
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