Angels Over Broadway

A Romance Born Between Dusk and Dawn

5.919401h 19m

Released

Drama

Crime

Overview

Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles a note, stuffs it in his pocket and goes for one last night on the town. He is pulled into a poker game by conman Bill O'Brien and singer Nina Barone, but when they discover the dropped note, they resolve to turn the tables, get Engle his $3,000 and save his life.

StatusReleased

Release Date1940-10-02

Runtime1h 19m

LanguagesEnglish

CountriesUnited States of America

Keywords

Cast & Crew

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

as Bill O'Brien

Rita Hayworth

as Nina Barona

Thomas Mitchell

as Gene Gibbons

John Qualen

as Charles Engle

George Watts

as Joseph Hopper

Ralph Theodore

as Dutch Enright

Eddie Foster

as Louie Artino

Jack Roper

as Eddie Burns

Constance Worth

as Sylvia Marbe

Harry Antrim

as Court Clerk (uncredited)

Reviews

John Chard

Sep 25, 2014

8/10

No demons, just excellently written angels. Produced, directed and written by Ben Hecht, Angels Over Broadway is a film that I personally hadn't heard of until it showed up on one of the British Freeview stations this last week. The first thing what surprised was the bona fide classy cast list, Mr Charm himself, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Miss Beauti…

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talisencrw

May 2, 2016

8/10

This was a fun watch, included in my oddly-titled yet truly economical Mill Creek 'Classic Romances' 8-pack, which I purchased because I love old movies and it was only $10. Though if you really stretch the definition of 'romance', the designation fits, that aspect is but a very minor component of this, and the other films', workings. The 2-time Os…

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