Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
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Cast. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Bill O'Brien; Rita Hayworth as Nina Barona; Thomas Mitchell as Gene Gibbons; John Qualen as Charles Engle; George Watts as Joseph Hopper; Ralph Theodore as Dutch Enright; Eddie Foster as Louie Artino; Jack Roper as Eddie Burns; Constance Worth as Sylvia Marbe; Reception
Angels Over Broadway: Directed by Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes. With Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, John Qualen. A cuckolded embezzler on the verge of suicide is helped by a tout, an alcoholic playwright, and a pick-up girl to reimburse the money with a gambling sting.
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- Adventure, Comedy, Crime
- Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes
- 1940-10-02
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Angels Over Broadway On a rainy night in New York City a group of four strangers meet at the swanky Times Square nightclub the Pigeon Club. Charles Engle (character actor John Qualen) is a suicidal nebbish who has embezzled money from his boss (George Watts).
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 ...
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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