Angels Over Broadway (1940)
A Romance Born Between Dusk and Dawn
79 min
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.
- Release date
- October 2, 1940
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Bill O'Brien
- Rita Hayworth as Nina Barona
- Thomas Mitchell as Gene Gibbons
- John Qualen as Charles Engle
- George Watts as Hopper
- Ralph Theodore as Dutch Enright
- Eddie Foster as Louie Artino
- Jack Roper as Eddie Burns
- Constance Worth as Sylvia Marbe
- Harry Antrim as Court Clerk
Crew
- Ben Hecht · Director
- Ben Hecht · Writer
- Ben Hecht · Producer
- George Antheil · Composer
- Lee Garmes · Cinematographer
- Gene Havlick · Editor