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Angels Over Broadway (1940)

TV_PG 79 min  -  Adventure | Comedy | Crime  -   2 October 1940 (USA)
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A cuckolded embezzler on the verge of suicide is helped by a tout, an alcoholic playwright, and a pick-up girl to reimburse the money with a gambling sting.

Directors:

Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes

Writer:

Ben Hecht

Stars:

Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rita Hayworth and Thomas Mitchell
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Cast

Complete credited cast:
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ...
Rita Hayworth ...
Nina Barona
Thomas Mitchell Thomas Mitchell ...
John Qualen John Qualen ...
George Watts George Watts ...
Ralph Theodore Ralph Theodore ...
Eddie Foster Eddie Foster ...
Jack Roper Jack Roper ...
Constance Worth Constance Worth ...
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Storyline

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. Written by John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>  

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Plot Keywords:

Scheme | Suicide Note | Playwright | Embezzler | Tout  | See more »

Taglines:

A HECTIC ROMANCE TO BLOW THE FISES OUT ALONG MAZDA LANE (original poster - all caps) See more »

Genres:

Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Music

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

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Also Known As:

Änglar över Broadway See more »

Company Credits

Production Co:

Columbia Pictures Corporation See more »
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Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording) | Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1
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Trivia

Walter Baldwin (Rennick) and Stanley Brown (Master of Ceremonies) are listed by a modern source as cast members for those roles, but they did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. See more »

Goofs

Continuity: When Gene, Nina and Bill are at the table in the club, discussing the plot for a play, Bill's cigarette keeps changing length. See more »

Quotes

Nina Barone: [to Bill O'Brien] I'll remember this night for a long time. When things don't seem so good, I'll remember Mr. Gibbons, and Mr. Engle... and you.
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Soundtracks

"Mon Homme"
(1920) (uncredited)
Music by Maurice Yvain
Played as dance music at the nightclub
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