Angels over Broadway (1940)
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60% of critics liked it
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54% of users liked it
(1,337 ratings)
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… More 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." Mitchell's clever schemes to beat Fairbanks come acropper, but Fairbanks has a sudden change of heart and decides it's more fun to perform good deeds. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes
- Genres
- Drama, Classics, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 1940 Wide
- On DVD
- Aug 20, 2002
Critic Reviews
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Featuring Rita Hayworth (before she became a star), this mildly amusing if verbose comedy is co-directed by Lee Garmes and Ben Hecht, better known as a writer (Hitchcock's Notorious).
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
What turned me off was that the downbeat tone never changed for me even as it piled on all its moral lessons.
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Leonard Klady, Movie City News
3.5
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Cast
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
as Bill O'Brien
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Rita Hayworth
as Nina Barona
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Thomas Mitchell
as Gene Gibbons
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John Qualen
as Charles Engle
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George Watts
as Hopper
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Ralph Theodore
as Dutch Enright
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Eddie Foster
as Louie Artino
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Jack Roper
as Eddie Burns
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Constance Worth
as Sylvia Marbe
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Harry Antrim
as Court Clerk
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Walter S. Baldwin
as Rennick
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Richard Bond
as Sylvia's Escort
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Stanley Brown
as Master of Ceremonies
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Jack Carr
as Tony
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Frank Conlan
as Joe
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Jimmy Conlin
as Pawn Shop Proprietor
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Carmen D'Antonio
as Specialty Dancer
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Edward Earle
as Headwaiter
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Roger Gray
as Gambler
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Carlton Elliott Griffin
as Waiter
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Ethelreda Leopold
as Cigarette Girl
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Blanche Payson
as Large Woman
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Lee Phelps
as Police Lieutenant
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Walter Sande
as Lunch Wagon Waiter
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Al Seymour
as Jack
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Harry Strang
as Gambler
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John Tyrrell
as Cabby
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Billy Wayne
as Taxi Driver
- Lee Garmes
- Ben Hecht
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Jerry Jerome
as Gambler
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Bill Lally
as Doorman
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Al Rhein
as Gambler
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Catherine Courtney
as Miss Karpin
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Tommy Dixon
as Checkroom Boy
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Art Howard
as Night Court Judge
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Patricia Maier
as Girl