Angels Over Broadway
1940 · 79 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 1,406 VOTES · DIR. Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,243 lines
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00:00:51 Go on, soak them.
00:06:28 Check your things, sir?
00:10:32 -Yes, sir? -Check.
00:14:01 Yes.
00:16:49 -Where are you from? -Me?
00:19:54 Finish your drink, while l examine this sad plot.
00:23:29 You figure?
00:26:27 ...and then you spit in his eye.
00:29:06 Sure she´s through with him, she hates him.
00:32:19 ...on our cut for steering him up there. Mr. Engle, the millionaire.
00:35:24 l stick to my own troubles to cry over.
00:38:08 l´m getting a little used to it, and to your insults, too.
00:40:58 He ain´t crazy, you say.
00:43:57 ...a very good actor.
00:47:08 l want you to act like a poor man.
00:50:24 Who knows?
00:53:23 You just take a powder and kindly omit flowers.
00:57:17 Okay. Here you are.
01:00:57 Thank you, sweet.
01:04:41 ln fact, l´m kind of worried about him. He looked pretty sick to me.
01:07:50 Sure, it´s all right if you want to go take a look.
01:11:04 You´re the same kind of nobody.
01:15:13 Yeah, this is Mr. Hopper.
30:00:40 Mr. O´Brien, playing poker?
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,243
Dialogue density15.7 lines / min
First line00:00:51
Final line30:00:40
Production Record
DirectorBen Hecht, Lee Garmes
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes1,406