The Gentleman Bandit is a 1981 TV movie directed by Jonathan Kaplan and starring Ralph Waite.
[3] It is based on the real story of Reverend Bernard Thomas Pagano.
Until the eve of the first screening,[4] the working title for the film was The Bandit Priest.
[8][9] Writer Milan Stitt spent a week interviewing Pagano, his attorney, friends and parishioners in December 1979.
[2] Pagano later taught theology at Notre Dame High School in Easton, Pennsylvania in the late 1990s and early 2000s.