by Hal Erickson
synopsis
In the Ben Hecht-scripted Angels over Broadway. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. plays a poker hustler working in cahoots with good-time girl Rita Hayworth. Alcoholic playwright Thomas Mitchell, having saved embezzler John Qualen from suicide, decides to enter Fairbanks' high-stakes game, using Qualen as an easy-mark "bait." Mitchell's clever schemes to beat Fairbanks come acropper, but Fairbanks has a sudden change of heart and decides it's more fun to perform good deeds.
characteristics
- Cons And Scams
- Writer's Life
- Alcoholism
- Foiling
- Foiled
- Foil [thwart]
- Rescue
- Redemption
- Suicidal
- Suicide
- Bad-guy-turns-good
- Navy-base
- Intrigue
- Embezzle
- Agent [representative]
