Released
Broadway Bill
November 30 1934 (about 90 years ago)Rating
61
Based on
19 reviews
The Comedy Successor to 'It Happened One Night'
- Director: Frank Capra
- Writer: Robert Riskin
- Genres: Comedy, Drama
- Runtime: 1 h 44 m
- Budget: $668,900
- Box office: $1,400,000
- Country: United States of America
- Company: Columbia Pictures
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...
