Angels Over Broadway

Director: Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes Ben Hecht

Overview

In the Ben Hecht-scripted Angels over Broadway. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. plays a poker hustler working in cahoots with good-time girl Rita Hayworth. Alcoholic playwright Thomas Mitchell, having saved embezzler John Qualen from suicide, decides to enter Fairbanks' high-stakes game, using Qualen as an easy-mark "bait." Mitchell's clever schemes to beat Fairbanks come acropper, but Fairbanks has a sudden change of heart and decides it's more fun to perform good deeds.

Product Details

Release Date:	12/01/2015
UPC:	0043396471726
Original Release:	1940
Rating:	NR
Source:	SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMT
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[B&W]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:19:00
Sales rank:	7,422

Special Features

Closed Caption

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.	Bill O'Brien
Rita Hayworth	Nina Barona
Thomas Mitchell	Gene Gibbons
John Qualen	Charles Engle
George Watts	Hopper
Ralph Theodore	Dutch Enright
Eddie Foster	Louie Artino
Jack Roper	Eddie Burns
Constance Worth	Sylvia Marbe
Richard Bond	Sylvia's Escort
Frank Conlan	Joe
Walter Baldwin	Rennick,Rennick
Jack Carr	Tony
Al Seymour	Jack
Jimmy Conlin	Proprietor
Ethelreda Leopold	Cigarette Girl
Edward Earle	Headwaiter
Catherine Courtney	Miss Karpin
Al Rhein	Gambler
Jerry Jerome	Gambler
Roger Gray	Gambler
Harry Strang	Gambler
Bill Lally	Doorman
Tommy Dixon	Checkroom Boy
Fred Sweeney	Hugo
Carmen D'Antonio	Specialty Dancer
Carlton Griffin	Waiter,Waiter
Stanley Brown	Master of Ceremonies
Patricia Maier	Girl
Lee Phelps	Police Lieutenant
Harry Antrim	Court Clerk
Blanche Payson	Large Woman
Caroline Frasher	Streetwalker
Billy Wayne	Taxi Driver
Walter Sande	Lunch Wagon Waiter
Art Howard	Night Court Judge
Lee Garmes	Actor
Ben Hecht	Actor
John Tyrrell	Cabby
Douglas Fairbanks	Actor
George Antheil	Composer

Technical Credits

Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht	Producer,Director,Screenwriter
Lee Garmes	Director

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Angels Over Broadway
1. Chapter 1 [10:58]
2. Chapter 2 [11:10]
3. Chapter 3 [8:42]
4. Chapter 4 [8:56]
5. Chapter 5 [11:57]
6. Chapter 6 [8:16]
7. Chapter 7 [11:39]
8. Chapter 8 [7:18]

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Disc #1 -- Angels Over Broadway
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