Angels Over Broadway (1940)

10/02/1940 (US) • Drama, Crime • 1h 19m

A Romance Born Between Dusk and Dawn

Overview

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.

Angels Over Broadway (1940)

10/02/1940 (US) • 1h 19m

Drama, Crime

A Romance Born Between Dusk and Dawn

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Bill O'Brien

Nina Barona

Thomas Mitchell

Gene Gibbons

Charles Engle

Joseph Hopper

Dutch Enright

Louie Artino

Eddie Burns

Constance Worth

Sylvia Marbe

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

con man

film noir

playwright

broadway

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