Bloodhounds of Broadway is a 1989 film based on four Damon Runyon stories. It was directed by Howard Brookner and starred Matt Dillon, Jennifer Grey, Anita Morris, Julie Hagerty, Rutger Hauer, Madonna, Esai Morales and Randy Quaid. Madonna and Jennifer Grey perform a duet, "I Surrender Dear", during the film. Bloodhounds of Broadway was Brookner's first feature-length film . The film was recut by the studio and Walter Winchellesque narration added. Broadway, New Year's Eve, 1928. A muckraking reporter, Waldo Winchester, frames four major stories during the wild New Year's Eve of 1928. We meet... the players in a diner. The Brain, a gangster with multiple girlfriends, is accompanied by a gambler named Regret and an outsider who is being treated to a meal. Feet Samuels is in love with a showgirl named Hortense Hathaway, who is tossed out of the diner because of an unsavory reputation. Feet plans to have one wild night before committing suicide, having sold his body in advance to a medical doctor.
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| Release date: | November 3, 1989 |
| Directed by: | Howard Brookner |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 93 Minutes |
| Screenplay by: | Howard Brookner, Colman deKay |
| Estimated budget: | $26,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | The Bloodhounds of Broadway and Other Stories |
| Genre: | Comedy |