

Broadway
1942-05-08 · 91 min · ★ 6.4
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
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- Directors
- William A. Seiter
- Production companies
- Universal Pictures
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
George RaftGeorge Raft
Pat O'BrienDan McCorn
Janet BlairBillie Moore
Marjorie RambeauLillian Rice
Broderick CrawfordSteve Crandall
Anne GwynnePearl
Edward BrophyPorky
S.Z. SakallNick
Marie WilsonGracie
Iris AdrianMaisie
Ralf HaroldeDolph
Charles LaneHungry Harry
Arthur ShieldsPete Dailey
Nestor PaivaRinelti
Abner BibermanTrado
Janet WarrenRuby
Dorothy MooreAnn
Damian O'FlynnScar Edwards
Mack GrayMack "Killer" GrayTitle information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.
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Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.

A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.

After being released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, Harvey Miller has revenge on his mind. He recruits his three best friends to help him rob the local drug kingpin whose betrayal put him away in the first place.

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.

After completing military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter—and takes him under his wing.

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.

Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.

The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.

In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
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