Angels Over Broadway (1940)

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(1332)

Country: USA
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Release: 1940-10-02
Director: Ben Hecht
Writers: Ben Hecht
Language: English
Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. , Rita Hayworth , Thomas Mitchell , John Qualen , George Watts , Ralph Theodore , Eddie Foster , Jack Roper , Constance Worth , Harry Antrim
Runtime: 79 min
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 nomination total
AKA: L'ange de Broadway (France, French Republic) , Antes de que me muera (Argentina) , Antes que me muera (Mexico) , Anioły z Broadwayu (Poland) , Broadway Melekleri (Turkey) , Angels Over Broadway (United States of America) , Salvo da Morte (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Ángeles sobre Broadway (Spain) , Angels Over Broadway , Änglar över Broadway (Sweden) , Angels Over Broadway (Canada) , Anjos da Broadway (Brazil) , Angeli del peccato (Italy) , Ангелы над Бродвеем , Enkeleitä yllä Broadwayn (Finland) , 紐育（ニューヨーク）の天使 (Japan) , Angels Over Broadway (United Kingdom)
Plot: 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.
IMDB:tt0032209