These Theatre Guild comedies always seemed so damn light, although it’s always a pleasure to hear Charles Laughton. He plays the bishop of the title who is a crime fiction buff and finds himself getting involved in a hold up along with his sister (Josephine Hull from Arsenic and Old Lace). The robber is actually a jolly good sort only helping out a girl trying to steal back money that was stolen from her father by a real baddy. I think when the Angry Young Men got angry they were railing at this sort of stuff. It would have made a good B film in the 30s, a vehicle for an elderly star- I checked this, and what do you know, it was. Laughton is good as always.
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