The Hoodlum Saint

The Hoodlum Saint is a 1946 American drama film starring William Powell and Esther Williams.

He crashes a high society wedding party in the hope of meeting businessman Lewis J. Malbery Henry ONeill. When a guard insists on seeing his invitation, Terry grabs guest Kay Lorrison Esther Williams and kisses her, much to her surprise. After the guard goes away, she slaps Terry in the face, but after his honest confession, begins to warm to him. She introduces him to her uncle, publisher Joe Lorrison Charles Trowbridge. Terry impresses him with his ideas on how to fight a bitter foe none other than Malbery and lands a job. He and Kay, who works on occasion at the paper, develop a relationship.After masterminding a skillful newspaper campaign against Malbery, Terry surprises his boss by quitting his relatively lowpaying job to go to work for Malbery in New York. Snarp, Fishface, Three Finger and Eel Slim Summerville tag along and open a pool room. When after three years, Malbery promotes him to executive vice president of the company, he returns to Baltimore to see Kay. He finds her once again at a wedding. To his dismay, however, she informs him that this time she is the bride. Nightclub singer Dusty Millard Angela Lansbury gets him on the rebound. ........

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