brother orchid be one strange movie that could have be a lot well . i have a feeling some key scene be leave on the cutting room floor and the writer could not have make their mind up about ann sothern character . pretty standard stuff for warner brother at first . edward g. robinson be a gang leader who run a protection racket and but he get bore with it and just up and quits and leave the whole shebang to his number two guy humphrey bogart . he take his bundle and tour the world in search of class . robinson his usual tough guy and but what a fathead as well . he should have insist on ann sothern go with him and do he really think she wasn not go to stray and especially with rich western rancher ralph bellamy panting after her . and of course humphrey bogart be simply go to step aside and let him resume after he tell everyone he be through . a bug bunny would say and what a maroon . so when robinson put together a new mob and start war on bogart and he shouldn not have be surprise when bogart take him for that last ride . and when sothern be the one who set him up and what there to say . that the first half and the second half deal with a group of monk who find a half dead robinson who wander to their door and they nurse him back to health . naturally he grateful to donald crisp and the rest of the brother . and robinson get a way to show that gratitude in the end . someone really screw up though with ann sothern character . be first make to think she pull the doublecross of all time . and then later be suppose to think she be dupe by bogart as well . i be still try to figure it out . it be one incredibly bad piece of write . robinson and bogart be always great when they get together . this be the last of four film they do at warner brother where robinson be the good guy . when they do their last joint film and key largo they have change place in the firmament of shimmer star . bogey of course be the good guy in that classic . brother orchid be the weak of the five film that robinson and bogart do together and but the fan of both men will probably like it .