Absolutely correct. Bogie wore the collar but wasn't a
priest. The movie was based on a novel by William E. Barrett,
who honed his craft in the pulp pages of Dime Detective and
Black Mask. One of Barrett's series was Needle Mike, a grubby
tatoo artist who in the way of comic/pulp heroes was the
disquise of a young millionaire.
Barrett returned to a religious background with his novel
LILIES OF THE FIELD but I bet writing about Needle Mike was
alot more fun.
Richard Moore
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "jimdohertyjr"
<jimdohertyjr@...> wrote:
>
> Bill,
>
> Re your comment below:
>
> > Bogart played a pretty hard-boiled priest in
THE LEFT HAND OF GOD.
>
> Actually he wasn't a priest (though he was a
Catholic who recalled
> serving Mass as a kid). He was an American mercenary
trying to
escape
> the enforced employment of a Chinese warlord and,
donning the
clerical
> garb of a Catholic missionary who'd died on the way
to his next
> assignment, PRETENDED to be a prist.
>
> JIM DOHERTY
>
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