Bloodhounds of Broadway

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Bloodhounds of Broadway was originally a 1952 film based on a Damon Runyon story and starred young starlet Mitzi Gaynor, along with Scott Brady, Mitiz Green, Marguerite Chapman, Micheal O'Shea, Wally Vernon and George E Stone. It was directed by Harmon Jones.

It was remade into a 1989 film, directed by Howard Brookner.

In the 1952 film, Gaynor plays a country girl who longs to be in show business. A New York bookmaker (Brady) hiding out in Georgia meets her and the inevitable happens - he goes straight and she gets her wish. The songs are so-so, although 'Broadway Rhythm' also heard in earlier musicals is fine and Mitzi was an exuberant dancer. (A tedious 1989 tribute to Runyon adopted the film's title.)

The plot for the 1989 remake: New York, New Year's Eve, 1928. High Society dame Harriet Mackyle (Julie Hagerty) is throwing a party. New York's most fashionable and frivolous socialites will be there. They include luckless pony player, Regret (Matt Dillon), powerful gambling operator, The Brain (Rutger Hauer), the honorable but penniless Feet Samuels (Randy Quaid), and Broadway's most desirable show-girl, Hortense Hathaway (Madonna). During the final hours before dawn, fortunes are lost and gained, crimes committed and romance blooms in a night that promises to be the last big blowout of the Jazz Era.

[edit] Cast

Matt Dillon
Jennifer Grey
Julie Hagerty
Rutger Hauer
Madonna
Randy Quaid
Directed by Howard Brookner
Based on short-stories by Damon Runyon

[edit] Trivia

In this movie, Madonna sings "I Surrender, Dear". This recording of the song has not been released commercially.
The club in the film is called "Mindy's", and is located at 327 West 47th Street.
The director of the movie, Howard Brookner was suffering from AIDS, and died shortly after completing it. Madonna showed her support by visiting him at the hospital, and while there she visited not only him but all the other patients on the AIDS ward at St Vincent's hospital.

Bloodhounds of Broadway at the Internet Movie Database