Angels over Broadway (1940) Reviews
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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." 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
- Starring:
- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Rita Hayworth, (more)
- Director(s):
- Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes, (more)
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- NR
- Format(s):
- DVD
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