Synopsis

Release Date: 01/01/1940
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Runtime: 1 hr 19 mins
Genre: Drama , Crime
Director: Lee Garmes
Cast: Carlton Elliott Griffin , Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. , Rita Hayworth , Tommy Dixon

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.

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