Broadway Bill

“The Comedy Successor to 'It Happened One Night'”

Dan Brooks (Warner Baxter) is a son-in-law who has spent years managing a paper box factory for J.L. Higgins (Walter Connolly), a tycoon who runs his whole family the way he runs his business. Dan quits to put everything he has into a racehorse named Broadway Bill, with Alice (Myrna Loy), J.L.'s daughter, on his side and almost no money behind him. Frank Capra's comedy is about a man who would sooner chase what he loves than collect a steady paycheck.