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1940 · Comedy · 1h 20mAngels Over Broadway (also called Before I Die) is a 1940 American drama film noir starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell and John Qualen. Ben Hecht, who co-directed (with cinematographer Lee Garmes ), co-produced and wrote the screenplay, was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay .
A 1940 comedy crime film directed by Ben Hecht and Lee Garmes, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Rita Hayworth. A suicidal embezzler is helped by a tout, a playwright, and a girl to recover his money in a gambling sting.
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- Adventure, Comedy, Crime
- Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes
- 1940-10-02
Angels Over Broadway. A boozing playwright (Thomas Mitchell) invests a clerk's loot in a poker game with two sharpers (Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rita Hayworth).
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- Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
- Ben Hecht
- Columbia Pictures Corporation
A drama film directed by Douglas Fairbanks and starring Bill O'Brien, Rita Hayworth and Thomas Mitchell. A playwright hires a con artist to help an embezzler change his ways.
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 ...
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In the Ben Hecht-scripted Angels over Broadway. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. plays a poker hustler working in cahoots with good-time girl Rita Hayworth. Alcoholic playwright Thomas Mitchell, having saved embezzler John Qualen from suicide, decides to enter Fairbanks' high-stakes game, using Qualen as an easy-mark "bait."
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