Angels Over Broadway

Oct 2, 1940

1h 19m

★ 5.8

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.

Genres

Drama

Crime

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

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Cast

Bill O'Brien

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Nina Barona

Rita Hayworth

Gene Gibbons

Thomas Mitchell

Charles Engle

John Qualen

Joseph Hopper

George Watts

Dutch Enright

Ralph Theodore

Louie Artino

Eddie Foster

Eddie Burns

Jack Roper

Sylvia Marbe

Constance Worth

Court Clerk (uncredited)

Harry Antrim

Rennick (uncredited)

Walter Baldwin

Stevie - Sylvia's Escort (uncredited)

Richard Bond

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7.7

The Killing

Jun 6, 1956

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.

5.4

Jealousy

Jul 23, 1945

A female cabbie is suspected of killing her drunken husband.

5.5

The Night Holds Terror

Jul 13, 1955

A group of escaped convicts holds a household prisoner as the police close in.

5.8

Born to Be Bad

Sep 28, 1950

Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.

6.5

Union Station

Oct 4, 1950

Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.

6.5

Caught

Feb 17, 1949

Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic, violent tendencies. Eventually, young Leonora escapes her unhappy life and begins working with New York City doctor Larry Quinada, who she soon falls for. Unfortunately, Ohlrig refuses to grant his wife a divorce, and things get even darker for Leonora when she realizes she's pregnant with his child.

7.3

Odd Man Out

Jan 30, 1947

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

6.6

Railroaded!

Sep 25, 1947

A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innocent man.

5.7

Walking Down Broadway

Mar 11, 1938

Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.

5.8

The Dark Past

Dec 22, 1948

A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.

7.4

Panic

Jan 15, 1947

Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town and discovers that his neighbors are only too ready to suspect the worst of him.

5.9

Night and Day

Jul 2, 1946

When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee with his creativity, but their budding romance must wait as Cole heads home. Back in New York, he mounts a series of popular shows, and when his work brings him back to Europe, he eventually marries Linda. But success doesn't spare him from marital complications or bad news about a beloved relative.

6.4

Rhapsody in Blue

Jun 27, 1945

Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.

6.5

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A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.