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Angels Over Broadway (1940)

Directed by Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes

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.

Rated NR | Length 79 minutes

Actors

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | Rita Hayworth | Thomas Mitchell | John Qualen | George Watts | Ralph Theodore | Eddie Foster | Jack Roper | Constance Worth | Harry Antrim | Walter Baldwin | Richard Bond | Jack Carr | James Conaty | Frank Conlan | Jimmy Conlin | Catherine Courtney | Carmen D'Antonio | Tommy Dixon | Edward Earle | Bess Flowers | Caroline Frasher | Roger Gray | Carlton Griffin | Ben Hecht | Art Howard | Jerry Jerome | William Lally | Ethelreda Leopold | Patricia Maier | Blanche Payson | Lee Phelps | Al Rhein | Walter Sande | Cy Schindell | Harry Strang | Fred Sweeney | John Tyrrell | Billy Wayne