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Angels Over Broadway (1940)
Directed by Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes
“A Romance Born Between Dusk and Dawn”
Drama, Crime · 1h 19m
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.
Cast
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Bill O'Brien
Rita Hayworth
Nina Barona
Thomas Mitchell
Gene Gibbons
John Qualen
Charles Engle
G
George Watts
Joseph Hopper
R
Ralph Theodore
Dutch Enright
E
Eddie Foster
Louie Artino
J
Jack Roper
Eddie Burns
Constance Worth
Sylvia Marbe
Harry Antrim
Court Clerk (uncredited)
Walter Baldwin
Rennick (uncredited)
Richard Bond
Stevie - Sylvia's Escort (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes
- Writer
- Ben Hecht
- Director of Photography
- Lee Garmes
- Original Music Composer
- George Antheil
- Editor
- Gene Havlick
- Producer
- Ben Hecht
Details
- Release date
- 1940-10-02
- Runtime
- 1h 19m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Columbia Pictures