Released
The Hoodlum Priest
March 26 1961 (almost 64 years ago)Rating
60
Based on
6 reviews
The most fantastic story the screen has ever told AND IT'S TRUE right down to its last jolt!
- Director: Irvin Kershner
- Writers: Joseph Landon, Don Murray
- Genre: Drama
- Runtime: 1 h 41 m
- Country: United States of America
- Companies: Murray-Wood Productions, United Artists
Venturing into some of the roughest slums of St. Louis, Jesuit priest Rev. Charles Dismas Clark dedicates himself to helping young ex-convicts who are struggling to rejoin a society that fears and rejects them. An especially wrenching case for the Reverend is Billy Lee Jackson, a troubled thief whose personal demons constantly tempt him back to a life of crime — and may ultimately make him pay the highest price for a few desperate decisions.
