A runaway heiress and her sister's husband join forces to race the latter's fast horse, Broadway Bill.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Warner Baxter | ... | Dan Brooks | |
| Myrna Loy | ... | Alice Higgins - aka The Princess | |
| Walter Connolly | ... | J.L. Higgins | |
| Helen Vinson | ... | Margaret | |
| Douglass Dumbrille | ... | Eddie Morgan (as Douglas Dumbrille) | |
| Raymond Walburn | ... | Col. Pettigrew | |
| Lynne Overman | ... | Oscar 'Happy' McGuire | |
| Clarence Muse | ... | Whitey | |
| Margaret Hamilton | ... | Edna | |
| Frankie Darro | ... | Ted Williams | |
| George Cooper | ... | Joe | |
| George Meeker | ... | Henry Early | |
| Jason Robards Sr. | ... | Arthur Winslow (as Jason Robards) | |
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Ed Tucker | ... | Jimmy Baker |
| Edmund Breese | ... | Presiding Judge | |
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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 bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance... Written by Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
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dysfunctional marriage | husband wife relationship | sister in law brother in law relationship | father daughter relationship | family relationships |Taglines:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
27 December 1934 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
A Vitória Será Tua See more »Filming Locations:
Tanforan Race Track, San Bruno, California, USACompany Credits
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Runtime:
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)Color:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Alice Higgins: Yes. Bedspreads and underwear.
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(1933) (uncredited)
Music and Lyrics by Billy Hill
Sung a cappella by Clarence Muse and Warner Baxter
Then played in the score
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Modern prints carry the Paramount logo before the opening credits and after the closing credits due to the fact that the film is now owned by Paramount, which bought the rights in order to produce the remake Riding High (1950). See more »Quotes
Dan Brooks: Doesn't anything ever change in this mausoleum?Alice Higgins: Yes. Bedspreads and underwear.
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Soundtracks
The Last Round-Up (Git Along, Little Dogie, Git Along)(1933) (uncredited)
Music and Lyrics by Billy Hill
Sung a cappella by Clarence Muse and Warner Baxter
Then played in the score
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This movie is a pleasure, from start to finish. The supporting cast is a pleasure, Warner Baxter gives a fine performance and Myrna Loy made this movie just before she played Nora Charles in THE THIN MAN -- Capra figured out how to direct her and MGM reaped the benefit.