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Director:
Writers:
Mark Hellinger (story)
Robert Riskin (writer)
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Release Date:
12 April 1950 (USA) more
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Plot:
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race. | add synopsis
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Cast

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Bing Crosby ... Dan Brooks
Coleen Gray ... Alice Higgins
Charles Bickford ... J.L. Higgins
Frances Gifford ... Margaret Higgins
William Demarest ... Happy
Raymond Walburn ... Prof. Pettigrew
James Gleason ... Racing Secretary
Ward Bond ... Lee
Clarence Muse ... Whitey
Percy Kilbride ... Pop Jones
Harry Davenport ... Johnson
Margaret Hamilton ... Edna
Paul Harvey ... Whitehall
Douglass Dumbrille ... Eddie Howard

Gene Lockhart ... J.P. Chase
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Additional Details

Runtime:
112 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Previously filmed as Broadway Bill (1934), directed by Frank Capra and starring Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy. more
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Remake of Broadway Bill (1934) more
Soundtrack:
Sunshine Cake more

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8 out of 12 people found the following comment useful.
Capra near his worst, 15 July 2002
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Author: Neal99 from Michigan

Frank Capra's creativity must have been just about spent by the time he made this film. While it has a few charming moments, and many wonderful performers, Capra's outright recycling of not just the script but considerable footage from his first version of this story, Broadway Bill (1934), is downright shoddy. It is understandable that he would re-use footage from the climactic horse race, which is thrilling. But he uses entire dialogue scenes with minor actors, then brings back those actors and apparently expects us not to notice, for example, that Ward Bond is 14 years older! Unless you want to see one of the last appearances of Oliver Hardy, skip this one and watch Broadway Bill instead.

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