The Hoodlum Priest
1961 · 101 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 510 VOTES · DIR. Irvin Kershner
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 919 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:04:11 Hurry! Here's your chance...
00:06:55 - You good with jelly? You know soup? - Look! That's my end of it, ain't it?
00:09:37 These things I'm gettin', they may be okay. I slept better for the first time.
00:12:28 Good.
00:16:58 That's a lot of cash there, Billy.
00:19:51 The bum copped him out. Got him two years for mugging a guy, no parole.
00:22:24 If the court please, I would like to confer with my client for a few moments.
00:25:04 ...this is a thermo-fax of the Police Department's arresting report.
00:27:18 Like makin' license plates or bustin' rock?
00:31:56 Go on. Everything's going to be fine.
00:36:24 Nice hubcaps, huh?
00:39:10 ...but 65%...
00:42:04 It's hot.
00:46:38 What's wrong with that?
00:49:10 ...that two-thirds of those you let out, with no place to go, no home, no jobs...
00:51:49 I know I don't talk so nicely...
00:54:25 I would rather bear the rest of my life in prison than give up this collar.
00:59:43 - What's her name and address? - Why?
01:08:41 Priest-boy.
01:18:15 ...l've been in kind of a jam myself down at the D.A.'s office.
01:21:51 You want to go out fast and clean.
01:27:11 I didn't mean to.
01:32:10 "I say to you, truly...
500:01:00 - $19.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed919
Dialogue density9.1 lines / min
First line00:04:11
Final line500:01:00
Production Record
DirectorIrvin Kershner
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes510