Broadway (1929)
- Starring:
- Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, (more)
- Director(s):
- Paul Fejos
Synopsis of Broadway
This early musical features several song-and-dance numbers in the midst of a story about underworld criminals. Nick (Paul Porcasi), who runs the Paradise Night Club, is murdered by Steve (Robert Ellis), a bootlegger. Billie Moore (Merna Kennedy), a hoofer at the club, witnesses the killing but stays mum about the dirty business until she finds out Steve's next target is Roy (Glenn Tryon), her dancing partner. Billie is determined to tell her story to the police before Roy winds up dead, but Steve isn't about to let that happen and kidnaps her. No synopsis of this film is complete without a mention of the then-remarkable camera crane, which director Paul Fejos had designed specifically for use on Broadway, allowing unusually fluid movement and access to nearly every conceivable angle. It could travel at 600 feet per minute and enlivened the visual style of any number of other films on the 20th Century Fox lot over the next several years. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Complete Cast of Broadway
- Glenn Tryon - Roy Lane
- Merna Kennedy - Billie Moore
- Robert Ellis - Steve Crandall
- Paul Porcasi - Nick Verdis
- Fritz Feld - Mose Leavett
- George Davis - Joe
- Florence Dudley - Ann
- Gus Arnheim
- Evelyn Brent - Pearl
- Thomas E. Jackson - Dan McCorn
- Otis Harlan - Porky Thompson
- Marion Lord - Lil Rice
- Leslie Fenton - Scar Edwards
- Betty Francisco - Mazie
- Arthur Houseman - Dolph
- Director(s):
- Paul Fejos
- Writer(s):
- Charles Furthman, Edward T. Lowe
- Producer(s):
- Carl Laemmle, Jr.
- 1929 - National Board of Review - Best Picture
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