Arizona to Broadway (1933)
66 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Arizona to Broadway (1933)

66 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

In the small town of Larrup, Arizona, con artist Smiley is traveling with cohorts Kingfish, Morris, and Ambrose, and he persuades Lynn Martin, a traveling demonstrator of pancake making, to accompany him to a carnival where Kingfish sells ...See moreIn the small town of Larrup, Arizona, con artist Smiley is traveling with cohorts Kingfish, Morris, and Ambrose, and he persuades Lynn Martin, a traveling demonstrator of pancake making, to accompany him to a carnival where Kingfish sells a large number of bottles of Bambo, an elixir. When a woman denounces Kingfish as a faker, Smiley, identifying himself as a medical inspector, conducts Kingfish safely through the angry crowd and grabs Lynn's purse on the way out. Later, on a train, Smiley meets Lynn again, and after he returns the purse, she explains that she is traveling to find the trail of three swindlers who talked her brother, a bank officer, into investing $20,000 belonging to an estate he was handling, and then left with the money. Two of the crooks, a couple named Sandburg, are in New Orleans, while the other, Hubert Wayne, is promoting a new show in New York. Smiley offers to help after privately convincing his cohorts that once they "cheat the cheaters," they will keep the money themselves. In a New Orleans hotel, Kingfish, masquerading as a philandering Texas oilman, attracts the interest of the Sandburgs, who plan to trap him in a compromising position and then blackmail him. After a fight, however, Kingfish, Smiley and the others get away with the Sandburgs' half of the swindle, $10,000, and proceed to New York where Lynn, posing as a chorus girl, has provoked Wayne's advances. When she introduces Wayne to Kingfish, who this time masquerades as a British jam manufacturer, Wayne, planning to swindle Kingfish, persuades him to invest $10,000 in the show to match his own $10,000, which gangster Tommy Monk fronts for the swindle. Wayne then plans to appropriate Kingfish's money through a switch of envelopes. Suspecting the ruse, Smiley trains Kingfish to do his own envelope switch. Kingfish's switch works, but after Smiley leaves with the $20,000, Wayne and Tommy discover the trick and capture Lynn and Kingfish, who reveals, to Lynn's dismay, Smiley's plan to keep the money. Tommy takes over the show to make back his money and coerces stage stars Ned Flynn, Jimmy Dante and female impersonator Ray Best to perform. On opening night, Smiley is captured at the theater, but he is able to call Tommy's rival, Rags Rigby. By imitating Tommy's voice, Smiley dares Rigby to come to the show. Rigby and his men respond to the challenge and start a massive fight in the theater. Smiley rescues Lynn and later, on another train, after he learns that Lynn did not trust him, upbraids her and reveals that he sent the money to her brother. The other three cohorts then decide to go straight. After planting her purse in Smiley's pocket, Lynn playfully accuses him of robbing her and they embrace. See less

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43 cast members

Name	Known for
James Dunn Smiley Wells Smiley Wells See fewer	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Joan Bennett Lynn Martin Lynn Martin See fewer	Suspiria (1977)
Herbert Mundin Kingfish Miller Kingfish Miller See fewer	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Sammy Cohen Morris Blitz Morris Blitz See fewer	Plastered in Paris (1928)
Theodore von Eltz Hubert Wayne Hubert Wayne See fewer	Topper (1937)
Merna Kennedy Flo Sandberg Flo Sandberg See fewer	The Circus (1928)
Earle Foxe John Sandburg John Sandburg See fewer	Hangman's House (1928)
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J. Carrol Naish Tommy Monk Tommy Monk See fewer	Sahara (I) (1943)
Max Wagner Pete Pete See fewer	Invaders from Mars (1953)
Walter Catlett Ned Flynn Ned Flynn See fewer	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Jerry Lester Jimmy Dante Jimmy Dante See fewer	Hardly Working (1980)
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Monica Bannister Audience Member (uncredited) Audience Member (uncredited) See fewer	Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
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