Broadway (1929)
- Directed by
- Paul Fejos
- Genre
- musical film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Rating
- 5.7 of 10 from 16 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A nightclub dancer gets caught up in a murder investigation and a romance in Prohibition-era New York. The story follows the backstage lives and entanglements of performers at a Broadway speakeasy.
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What happens
Broadway is a 1929 American musical crime film directed by Paul Fejos from the 1926 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. This was Universal's first talking picture with Technicolor sequences. The film was released by the Criterion Collection on Blu-ray and DVD in 2012, with Paul Fejo's Lonesome. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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