The read
A Balasaur Score of 74 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.7/10, Rotten Tomatoes 100%. Critics rate it 33 points higher than audiences do. Streaming on Tubi.
Synopsis
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...
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 33 points higher than audiences do.
22 audience votes
Key crew
- Frank CapraDirector
- Robert RiskinScreenplay
- Howard JacksonOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Warner BaxterDan Brooks
- Myrna LoyAlice 'Princess' Higgins
- Walter ConnollyJ.L. Higgins
- Helen VinsonMargaret
- Douglass DumbrilleEddie Morgan
- Raymond WalburnColonel Pettigrew
- Lynne OvermanHappy McGuire
- Clarence MuseWhitey
- Broadway BillBroadway Bill - a Horse
- Margaret HamiltonEdna
- Frankie DarroTed Williams
- George CooperJoe
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Themes
gamblinghorsefamily business colonelheiress