The Gentleman Bandit (1981 film)
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Plot
A priest is accused of armed robbery by various eyewitnesses.
Cast
- Ralph Waite as Reverend Pagano
- Jerry Zaks as his lawyer
- Estelle Parsons as a parishioner
- Giancarlo Esposito as Jamie
Production
Until the eve of the first screening,[4] the working title for the film was The Bandit Priest.[5][6]
The film was based on a true story of the Reverend Bernard Thomas Pagano[7] who was arrested in 1979 for five armed robberies and one attempted robberies. Eventually another man, Ronald W. Clouser, confessed to the crimes.[8][9]
Writer Milan Stitt spent a week interviewing Pagano, his attorney, friends and parishioners in December 1979. He wrote the script in four days.[2] Pagano, a native of Newark, New Jersey, served five years as a chaplain at the VA hospital in Lyons and East Orange in the 1990s, according to Tom Malek-Jones, the chief chaplain for the facility.[10] Pagano, himself a veteran of the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, was considered "a valuable asset for his work with veterans of that era and did not seem like a robber", Malek-Jones said.[10]
Filming took place in New York City and Westchester County.[11] It began on 19 January 1981. Pagano himself acted as technical advisor on the film.[2] Pagano later taught theology at Notre Dame High School in Easton, Pennsylvania in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
References
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- Bernard Pagano at the Internet Movie Database
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). The Gentleman Bandit at IMDb
- The Gentleman Bandit at Letterbox DVD
- The Gentleman Bandit at TCMDB
- The Gentleman Bandit at BFI
- ↑ https://www.tvguide.com/movies/the-gentleman-bandit/2030056311/
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- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Rev. Bernard Pagano, 81; Cleared of Being ‘Gentleman Bandit’ Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 11, 2024.
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