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Broadway is a american film of genre Musical directed by Paul Fejos released in USA on 27 may 1929 with Glenn Tryon

Broadway (1929)

Broadway
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Released in USA 27 may 1929
Length 1h44
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Musical,    Crime
Rating61% 3.0924253.0924253.0924253.0924253.092425

Broadway is a 1929 film directed by Pál Fejös from the play of the same name by George Abbott and Philip Dunning. It stars Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Paul Porcasi, Robert Ellis, Merna Kennedy and Thomas E. Jackson.

This was Universal's first talking picture with Technicolor sequences. The film was released by the Criterion Collection on Blu-ray and DVD with Paul Fejo's Lonesome on August 2012.

Synopsis

Roy Lane and Billie Moore, entertainers at the Paradise Nightclub, are in love and are rehearsing an act together. Late to work one evening, Billie is saved from dismissal by Nick Verdis, the club proprietor, through the intervention of Steve Crandall, a bootlegger, who desires a liaison with the girl. "Scar" Edwards, robbed of a truckload of contraband liquor by Steve's gang, arrives at the club for a showdown with Steve and is shot in the back. Steve gives Billie a bracelet to forget that she has seen him helping a "drunk" from the club. Though Roy is arrested by Dan McCorn, he is later released on Billie's testimony. Nick is murdered by Steve. Billie witnesses the killing, but keeps quiet about the dirty business until she finds out Steve's next target is Roy. 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. Steve, in his car, is fired at from a taxi, and overheard by Pearl, he confesses to killing Edwards. Pearl confronts Steve in Nick's office and kills him; and McCorn, finding Steve's body, insists that he committed suicide, exonerating Pearl and leaving Roy and Billie to the success of their act.

Actors

Glenn Tryon

(Roy Lane)Evelyn Brent

(Pearl)Merna Kennedy

(Billie Moore)Robert Ellis

(Steve Crandall)Thomas E. Jackson

(Dan McCorn)
And :
Otis Harlan
Robert Ellis
Paul Porcasi
Fritz Feld
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