Broadway Musketeers

Director: John Farrow John Farrow

Overview

Broadway Musketeers is a remake of the 1932 Warner Bros. drama Three on a Match, with numerous concessions made to the now more stringent Hollywood censors. Brought up together in an orphanage, three young ladies-Isabel (Margaret Lindsay), Fay (Ann Sheridan) and Connie (Marie Wilson)-vow to remain friends through thick and thin. Fate, however, has other things in store for the three heroines, obliging them to trod widely divergent paths in life. One of the three girls deserts her husband in favor of a group of crooked gamblers, culminating in the kidnapping of her beloved child (Janet Chapman). Horace McMahon essays the tough-guy role originally played in Three on a Match by Humphrey Bogart. Producer Bryan Foy is careful to add several new plot twists and characters to prevent Broadway Musketeers from being a carbon copy of its predecessor, not least of which is transforming the character originally enacted by Joan Blondell into a dizzy-blonde type played by Marie Wilson.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/12/2019
UPC:	0883929675357
Original Release:	1938
Rating:	NR
Source:	Warner Archives
Presentation:	[B&W]
Language:	English
Time:	1:03:00
Sales rank:	46,709

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Margaret Lindsay	Isabel 'Isabelle' Dowling Peyton
Ann Sheridan	Fay Reynolds Dowling
Marie Wilson	Miss Connie Todd
John Litel	Stanley 'Stan' Dowling
Janet Chapman	Judy Dowling
Dick Purcell	Vincent Morrell
Anthony Averill	Nick
Horace MacMahon	Gurk
Dewey Robinson	Milt
Dorothy Adams	Anna
Jimmy Conlin	Skinner
Jan Holm	Schoolteacher
Richard Bond	Phil Peyton
Horace McMahon	Gurk

Technical Credits

Don Ryan

Kenneth Gamet

John Farrow	Director
Bryan Foy	Producer
Don Ryan	Screenwriter
Kenneth Gamet	Screenwriter

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Broadway Musketeers
1. Chapter 1 [7:58]
2. Chapter 2 [8:59]
3. Chapter 3 [9:16]
4. Chapter 4 [8:46]
5. Chapter 5 [8:02]
6. Chapter 6 [8:40]
7. Chapter 7 [8:24]
8. Chapter 8 [2:11]
9. Chapter 9 [:10]

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Editorial Reviews

Although a pleasant enough programmer, Broadway Musketeers remains a prime example of how dramatically Hollywood films changed after 1934, when the production code became strictly enforced. A more or less straightforward remake of Three on a Match (1932), this story of three school chums vowing to meet on the same date each year has none of the grittiness of its predecessor. There are no hints here of cocaine addiction or child abuse, nor is there any of the edgy acting typical of early Depression-era heroines like Joan Blondell and Ann Dvorak. Instead we get cuddly comic book gangsters and almost too polished performances from Warners' second-tier stock company. Margaret Lindsay, in the Ann Dvorak role, goes from bored stockbroker's wife to bored gambler's wife and without the aforementioned addiction, loses all motivation for so cruelly abandoning her little child. Ann Sheridan sings a couple of songs in her characteristic throaty voice and turns her burlesque queen into a Fifth Avenue matron as swiftly as Joan Blondell had five years earlier. The real joy in this version, however, is dim-witted Marie Wilson -- and didn't Warner Bros. know it -- but it is a stock assignment and she, too, must take some responsibility for turning a taut drama into just another polished Grade-B movie.

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