Broadway Bill

Broadway Bill (1934)

30/11/1934
Comedy, Drama
1h 44m

The Comedy Successor to 'It Happened One Night'

Overview

Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bankroll is thin and the luck is against him. He is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planned fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...

  • Frank CapraDirector
  • Robert RiskinScreenplay
  • Status

    Released

  • Original Language

    English

  • Budget

    $668,900

  • Revenue

    $1,400,000

Keywords

  • gambling
  • horse
  • family business
  • colonel
  • heiress

Top Billed Cast

Warner Baxter

Warner Baxter

Dan Brooks

Myrna Loy

Myrna Loy

Alice 'Princess' Higgins

Walter Connolly

Walter Connolly

J.L. Higgins

Helen Vinson

Helen Vinson

Margaret

Douglass Dumbrille

Douglass Dumbrille

Eddie Morgan

Raymond Walburn

Raymond Walburn

Colonel Pettigrew

Lynne Overman

Lynne Overman

Happy McGuire

Clarence Muse

Clarence Muse

Whitey

Broadway Bill

Broadway Bill - a Horse

Margaret Hamilton

Margaret Hamilton

Edna

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