Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989 film)
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| Directed by | Howard Brookner |
| Produced by | Samuel Benedict Chris Brigham Howard Brookner Colman deKay Kevin Dowd Lindsay Law |
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Howard Brookner Colman deKay Damon Runyon (stories) |
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| Music by | Jonathan Sheffer |
| Cinematography | Elliot Davis |
| Edited by | Camilla Toniolo |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4 million |
| Box office | $43,671 |
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". It was directed by Howard Brookner and starred Matt Dillon, Jennifer Grey, Anita Morris, Julie Hagerty, Rutger Hauer, Madonna, Esai Morales and Randy Quaid. Madonna and Jennifer Grey perform a duet, "I Surrender Dear", during the film. Madonna earned a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Supporting Actress for her performance in the film, where she lost to Brooke Shields for Speed Zone.
Bloodhounds of Broadway was Brookner's only feature-length film; he died shortly before the film opened. The film was recut by the studio and Walter Winchell-esque narration was added. Six months following its theatrical release, the film was televised as a presentation of PBS's American Playhouse on May 23, 1990.
Broadway, New Year's Eve, 1928. A muckraking reporter, Waldo Winchester, frames four major stories during the wild New Year's Eve of 1928.
We meet the players in a diner. The Brain, a gangster with multiple girlfriends, is accompanied by a gambler named Regret (after the only horse he ever won a bet on) and an outsider who (with his bloodhounds) is being treated to a meal. Feet Samuels (so named because of his big feet) is in love with a showgirl named Hortense Hathaway, who is tossed out of the diner because of an unsavory reputation. Feet plans to have one wild night before committing suicide, having sold his body in advance to a medical doctor.
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