Broadway Bill
The Comedy Successor to 'It Happened One Night'
1934 · 1h 44m · APPROVED
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Frank Capra
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...
Director and cast
- Frank Capra Director
- Warner Baxter as Dan Brooks
- Myrna Loy as Alice 'Princess' Higgins
- Walter Connolly as J.L. Higgins
- Helen Vinson as Margaret
- Douglass Dumbrille as Eddie Morgan
- Raymond Walburn as Colonel Pettigrew
- Lynne Overman as Happy McGuire
- Clarence Muse as Whitey
- Broadway Bill as Broadway Bill - a Horse
- Margaret Hamilton as Edna
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