Angels Over Broadway
1940 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Charles Engle has been caught embezzling. He writes a suicide note, and goes out wandering on the town. Small-time hustler Bill O'Brian sees him give a couple of big tips, figures he's rich, and plans to take him over to a big-time card game and fleece him. He enlists Nina Barone to help get Engle to the game. She goes along, but is more interested in O'Brien than in his schemes. Meanwhile, a perpetually drunk and none too successful playwright, Gene Gibbons, finds the suicide note. He cooks up a scheme (with the reluctant aid of O'Brien) to get the money Engle needs to pay back his employer and save his life.
Direction Ben Hecht · Lee Garmes
Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Rita Hayworth · Thomas Mitchell · John Qualen · George Watts · Ralph Theodore · Eddie Foster · Jack Roper · Constance Worth
Soundtrack George Antheil
Screenplay Ben Hecht
Cinematography Lee Garmes
Original title Angels Over Broadway
6.0
156 votes (FilmAffinity)
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