Walking Down Broadway

Drama, USA, 1938, 75 min.



On New Year's Eve in New York's Times Square, as the Manhattan Revue closes its run, six chorus girls who share a dressing room sign an agreement to meet at a reunion on the next New Year's Eve at the ritzy Manhattan Terrace. The girls are Sandra De Voe, who has landed a Hollywood contract; Jerry Lane, who is in love with Tom Douglas, an underling to investment counselor Peter Claybourne; Vicki Stone, with whom Peter is infatuated; Joan Bradley, who secretly loves Peter; Tiny Bronson, whom the others tease for her seeming lack of intelligence; and Linda Martin, who toys with the idea of taking up with a gambler even though she has a young daughter. Outside the theater, Sandra is hit by a truck and killed. By the winter, Tiny has secured a role in a new Broadway show, while Joan goes to designing school. Tom is depressed that he cannot give Jerry expensive gifts or take her to fancy places. Although she is satisfied with only his love, Jerry encourages him to ask Peter for a raise, but Peter puts him off. When Vicki, who is dating both Peter and gambler Frank Gatty, brags that she can keep four men at one time if she wants, Joan is disgusted. Envious of Vicki, Linda takes a job as a singer at the infamous Baccarat Club, despite Joan's warnings. When Peter, who works much of the time in Boston, arrives unexpectedly while Vicki is with Gatty, Joan, despite her feelings toward Peter, covers for Vicki. The next day, however, a photograph of Vicki and Gatty leaving the Baccarat Club appears in a newspaper. When Vicki, suspicious of her, implies that Joan will tell Peter, Joan slaps her, but after Peter sees the picture, Joan explains that she herself got involved with Gatty and that they took Vicki "slumming" when the photo was taken. Not satisfied with the story, Peter returns to Boston. Sometime later, Peter surprises Vicki embracing Gatty. He does not believe Vicki's excuse and tells her that he had come anyway to break off with her. Distressed, Vicki goes to the balcony and threatens to jump if he does not say that he believes her. Peter just laughs, and Vicki actually does fall to her death as a loose railing on which she leans gives way. Joan helps Peter avoid a scandal, and after the death is ruled an accident, Peter sends Joan a check for $5,000, which she refuses to cash. Later, an admirer whom Joan has rejected helps her get a job as a designer. Bob Randall, the son of her firm's owner, is interested in Joan, but he goodheartedly accepts her rejection of his advances. At the Baccarat Club, Gatty accuses the owner, Ace Wagner, of having crooked dice and goes for his gun. Ace shoots him and then gives his gun to Linda. As the wounded Gatty is about to shoot back, Linda, at Ace's instigation, plugs Gatty, who dies. After Ace falsely testifies that Linda fired both shots, a jury convicts her of second-degree murder. At Christmas, Tom confesses to Jerry that he embezzled money from Peter to play the stock market. He says he intended to return the money, but worries that Peter will soon find out. Tom plans to go away, and because Jerry wants to accompany him, Joan takes her to get help from Peter. Peter, who has reported the theft, is unwilling to try to get the warrant for Tom's arrest lifted, and he berates the women, saying that their "false idea of success" led Tom to steal. Furious, Joan tells Peter off. Peter then has his attorney call off the warrant and gives Jerry money for Tom, so that they can leave for South America. Joan, who plans to sail with Linda's daughter Sunny to France on New Year's Eve to take over the Paris salon, will not accept messages from Peter. As her boat is ready to depart, Joan, in tears, rips up the agreement she and the others signed the previous New Year's Eve. Sunny is not able to comfort Joan; however, Peter arrives at the dock with flowers and a ticket for himself, and he and Joan reconcile.
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Režie: Norman Foster
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