“The first successful approach to an anti-religious subject - laughter. As in Three Thieves where the methods of petty crime and big business are compared satirically, so in St. Jorgen the business methods of thieves are paralleled with the financial and political pressures of the church - all in a richly vaudeville manner calculated not so much to convince the spectator as to amuse him while making him a little more sceptical than before. Two thieves arrive in town at the time of the annual holiday of the local saint, an event efficiently exploited by town and church - only this time the two thieves exploit it for their own benefit. The film opens on exactly the right note with the production of a propaganda film to attract worshippers to the shrine of St. Jorgen.”