Angels Over Broadway (1940)
A Romance Born Between Dusk and Dawn
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.
- Date of release
- 1940-10-02
- TMDB
- 5.9 / 10 (31)
- Runtime
- 1h 19m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Director
- Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes
Casting
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr. — Bill O'Brien
- Rita Hayworth — Nina Barona
- Thomas Mitchell — Gene Gibbons
- John Qualen — Charles Engle
- George Watts — Joseph Hopper
- Ralph Theodore — Dutch Enright
- Eddie Foster — Louie Artino
- Jack Roper — Eddie Burns
- Constance Worth — Sylvia Marbe
- Harry Antrim — Court Clerk (uncredited)
- Walter Baldwin — Rennick (uncredited)
- Richard Bond — Stevie - Sylvia's Escort (uncredited)
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