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Bloodhounds of Broadway is a 1989 American ensemble period comedy film based on four Damon Runyon stories: "The Bloodhounds of Broadway", "A Very Honorable Guy", "The Brain Goes Home" and "Social Error".
Nov 3, 1989 · Bloodhounds of Broadway: Directed by Howard Brookner. With Josef Sommer, Madonna, Tony Azito, Jennifer Grey. Broadway was never brighter and never roared louder than New Year's Eve, 1928, when anything could happen-and did.
A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert 'Numbers' Foster, falls for a pretty country songbird, Emily Ann Stackerlee , he'll do anything to help her make it big -- including a stint in jail to pay for his crimes.
PG | Comedy, Drama, Romance. Watch options. Trailer. Broadway was never brighter and never roared louder than New Year's Eve, 1928, when anything could happen-and did.
This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that Hortense loves him and that he would rather live than die. In another story, Harriet's parrot is killed, and she has problems dealing with her loss.
A socialite (Julie Hagerty), a lunkhead (Randy Quaid), a chorus girl (Madonna) and other Runyonesque characters mingle on New Year's Eve 1928.
- Comedy, Drama
Add a handful of reluctant gangsters, an assortment of unflappable flappers and a philandering gambler, and you've got a comic celebration of the infamous night when the underworld met the upper crust - and the laughs were strictly on the house! © 1989 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.
