Broadway (1929 film)

Broadway is a 1929 film directed by Pl Fejs 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.

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 Steves 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 Billies testimony. Nick is murdered by Steve. Billie witnesses the killing, but keeps quiet about the dirty business until she finds out Steves next target is Roy. Billie is determined to tell her story to the police before Roy winds up dead, but Steve isnt 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 Nicks office and kills him and McCorn, finding Steves body, insists that he committed suicide, exonerating Pearl and leaving Roy and Billie to the success of their act.Director Fejos designed the camera crane specifically for use on this movie, allowing unusually fluid movement and access to nearly every conceivable angle. It could travel at 600 feet per minute and enlivened the visual style of this film and others that followed. ........

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