Angels over Broadway

Angels over Broadway (1940)

  • 60% of critics liked it
    (5 reviews)

  • 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

Unrated,
Directed By
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Genres
Drama, Classics, Comedy
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1940 Wide
On DVD
Aug 20, 2002

Critic Reviews

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • Leonard Klady, Movie City News

    3.5

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