Fighting Father Dunne
- Original title
- Fighting Father Dunne
- Year
- 1948
- Running time
- 93 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Pat O'Brien
- Darryl Hickman
- Charles Kemper
- Una O'Connor
- Arthur Shields
- Harry Shannon
- Joe Sawyer
- Anna Q. Nilsson
- Donn Gift
- Myrna Dell
- Ruth Donnelly
- James Nolan
- Billy Cummings
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- Music
- Cinematography
George E. Diskant (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Action. Drama | Biography. Crime. Historical
- Synopsis
- St. Louis, 1905: Parish priest Father Dunne becomes aware of the plight of the city's newsboys, living on pennies and often homeless, and resolves to help them. Through inspired finagling and the gift of the blarney, he organizes a sort of "co-op" orphanage for increasing numbers of boys. Then he's faced with the tougher problem of stopping the escalating violence in inter-paper rivalry for "good corners"...
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