Angels Over Broadway(Movie, 1940)

Name: Angels Over Broadway
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Crime
Released: 1940
Duration: T01:19:00
Rating: 3

| 1h 19min | Genres: Drama, Comedy, Crime

Rating: 3.0/5 (with 10 votes)

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. Fairbanks Jr. co-produced, helping persuade Harry Cohn of Columbia to finance. Cohn gave them Rita Hayworth, in her first leading role in an "A" picture. "Cohn couldn't figure out what the picture was about but neither could we," said Fairbanks Jr. ()

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Awards & Nominations for Angels Over Broadway

nominated for: Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

About Angels Over Broadway

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. He is pulled into a poker game by conman Bill O'Brien and singer Nina Barone, but when they discover the dropped note, they resolve to turn the tables, get Engle his $3,000 and save his life.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Made by: Columbia Pictures

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 7 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU)

Status: Released

Release date US: 10/02/1940

Cast: Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, John Qualen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Edward Earle

Director: Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes

Producer: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Screenwriter: Ben Hecht

Film Editor: Gene Havlick

Director of Photography: Lee Garmes

Composer: George Antheil

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Antes que me muera"

Keywords: playwright, con man, film noir, broadway

Color: Black & White (B/W)

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