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Broadway Bill

The Comedy Successor to 'It Happened One Night'

6.0(22)19341h 44m1

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...

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Status
Released
Budget
$668.9K
Box office
$1.4M
Language
English
  • gambling
  • horse
  • family business
  • colonel
  • heiress

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Frank Capra

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical (limited)NRNew York City, New York30 Nov 1934
    • Theatrical27 Dec 1934

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Broadway Bill was released on 30 November 1934.

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  • C

    CinemaSerf

    1/7/2024

    6/10

    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 a job or family mone…

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