Broadway to Cheyenne
{{short description|1932 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Broadway to Cheyenne
| image = Broadway to Cheyenne FilmPoster.jpeg
| caption = Theatrical poster| director = Harry L. Fraser
| producer = Trem Carr (producer)
| writer = Wellyn Totman (story and adaptation) &
Harry L. Fraser (story and adaptation)
| starring = See below
| cinematography = Archie Stout
| editing = Carl Pierson
| distributor =
| studio = Monogram Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1932}}
| runtime = 60 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
}}
Broadway to Cheyenne is a 1932 American pre-Code Western film directed by Harry L. Fraser. The film is also known as From Broadway to Cheyenne (American poster title).{{Cite book |last=Simmon |first=Scott |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EN64jzq4Q3AC |title=The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half Century |date=2003-06-30 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-55581-4 |pages=154, 168 |language=en}} The film successfully combines the Western with the gangster film and vigilante film.
Plot
A young and honest New York Police Department detective "Breezy" Kildare is attempting to arrest B.H. "Butch" Owens, the leader of a gang of criminals who attempted to bribe him. He is wounded in a shootout between Owens' gang and another gang in a Broadway night club.
His police chief allows him to recuperate and cool down in his thirst for justice back in his home of Wyoming where his father is a cattleman. Once arriving back home he soon discovers the gangsters who attempted to bribe and kill him are lying low there and diversifying by starting a Cattleman's Benevolent Association that is actually a protection racket protecting the cattlemen from such perils as having their cattle machine gunned.
When his father is shot in a drive-by shooting, Breezy leads the cattlemen against the well-armed gangsters who no longer have the power of a bribed administration or high-powered legal protection, but now have to face six-gun justice and lynch law.
Cast
- Rex Bell as "Breezy" Kildare
- Marceline Day as Ruth Carter
- Matthew Betz as Joe Carter
- Robert Ellis as B.H. "Butch" Owens
- George 'Gabby' Hayes as Walrus
- Huntley Gordon as New York City Dist. Atty. Brent
- Roy D'Arcy as Jess Harvey
- Gwen Lee as Mrs. Myrna Wallace
- Harry Semels as Louie Walsh
- Al Bridge as Al (Owens henchman)
- John Elliott as Martin Kildare
- Gordon De Main as Rancher
- Earl Dwire as Cattleman
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0022921|title=Broadway to Cheyenne}}
- {{Internet Archive film|id=BroadwaytoCheyenne|name=Broadway to Cheyenne}}
{{Harry L. Fraser}}
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Category:1930s English-language films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:1932 crime drama films
Category:1932 Western (genre) films
Category:1930s vigilante films
Category:Monogram Pictures films
Category:American Western (genre) films
Category:American crime drama films
Category:American vigilante films
Category:Films set in Manhattan
Category:Films with screenplays by Harry L. Fraser
Category:Films directed by Harry L. Fraser
Category:English-language Western (genre) films
Category:English-language crime drama films
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