Broadway (1929 film)
Broadway is a 1929 film directed by Pál Fejös from a play by George Abbott, Phillip Dunning and Jed Harris. It stars Glenn Tyron, Evelyn Brent, Paul Porcasi, Robert Ellis, Merna Kennedy and Thomas E. Jackson.
Plot
Nick Verdis, who runs the Paradise Night Club, is murdered by Steve Crandall, a bootlegger. Billie Moore, a dancer at the club, witnesses the killing, but keeps quiet about the dirty business until she finds out Steve's next target is Roy Lane, her dancing partner. Billie is determined to tell her story to the police before Roy winds up dead, but Steve isn't about to let that happen and kidnaps her.
Trivia
Director Fejos designed the camera crane specifically for use on this movie, allowing unusually fluid movement and access to nearly every conceivable angle. It could travel at 600 feet per minute and enlivened the visual style of this film and others that followed.
