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59% Critic Match
Angels Over Broadway
“A Romance Born Between Dusk and Dawn”
5.9 / 10• 1940• 1h 19m•NR• English
DramaCrime
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Bill O'Brien
Lead
Rita Hayworth
Nina Barona
Thomas Mitchell
Gene Gibbons
John Qualen
Charles Engle
GW
George Watts
Joseph Hopper
RT
Ralph Theodore
Dutch Enright
EF
Eddie Foster
Louie Artino
JR
Jack Roper
Eddie Burns
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Ben Hecht's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Angels Over Broadway is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
