Broadway Bill

The Comedy Successor to 'It Happened One Night'

A lighthearted romantic comedy about a man pursuing his passion for horse racing while escaping family control, with warmth and humor grounded in the scrappy determination of underdogs.

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...