Broadway Bill

“The Comedy Successor to 'It Happened One Night'”

6.0(21)19341h 44m

ComedyDrama

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

Frank Capra

Budget

$0.7M

Revenue

$1.4M

Where to watch

Free

With ads

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Cast

Warner Baxter

Dan Brooks

Myrna Loy

Alice 'Princess' Higgins

Walter Connolly

J.L. Higgins

Helen Vinson

Margaret

Douglass Dumbrille

Eddie Morgan

Raymond Walburn

Colonel Pettigrew

Lynne Overman

Happy McGuire

Clarence Muse

Whitey

Broadway Bill

Broadway Bill - a Horse

Margaret Hamilton

Edna

Frankie Darro

Ted Williams

George Cooper

Joe

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

2y ago

6.0

At a family dinner, patriarch "Higgins" (Walter Connolly) - who has his name on practically everything - is bemoaning the failures of his cardboard box division. That's run by son-in-law "Dan" (Warner Baxter) but he's bored witless by the whole operation and decides he wants to quit and focus on his eponymous racehorse. He quickly discovers that owning an horse is a pricey occupation, and without ...