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

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