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Angels Over Broadway (also called Before I Die) is a 1940 American drama film noir starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell and John Qualen. Ben Hecht, who co-directed (with cinematographer Lee Garmes), co-produced and wrote the screenplay, was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
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.
- (1.4K)
- Adventure, Comedy, Crime
- Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes
- 1940-10-02
A drama film directed by Douglas Fairbanks and starring Bill O'Brien, Rita Hayworth and Thomas Mitchell. A playwright hires a con artist to help an embezzler change his ways.
- 1 min
A boozing playwright (Thomas Mitchell) invests a clerk's loot in a poker game with two sharpers (Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rita Hayworth).
- (6)
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
- Ben Hecht
- Columbia Pictures Corporation
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.
Charles Mitchell has been caught embezzling. He writes a suicide note and goes out wandering on thetown. Small-time hustler Bill O'Brian sees him give a couple of big tips, figures he's rich, and plans to take him over to a big-time card game and fleece him.
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