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Broadway Limited 1941 ★★★ (CC) Comedy [Victor McLaglen]

2026-02-28 3 Dailymotion

Broadway Limited is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Victor McLaglen, Dennis O'Keefe and ZaSu Pitts. The film takes its name from the Broadway Limited train that the Pennsylvania Railroad used to run between New York and Chicago.

Storyline:
Hoping to capitalize on a publicity tour from Chicago to New York by film star April Tremaine, producer Ivan Ivanski decides April should travel with a baby, and he orders his secretary, to locate one. A stranger who overhears the secretary telling the plan to an engineer at the train station offers a baby for $500. But, soon after the group boards a train with the infant, news leaks out about the kidnapping of a wealthy family's baby.

Credits:
Victor McLaglen as Maurice "Mike" Monohan
Marjorie Woodworth as April Tremaine / Mary Potter
Dennis O'Keefe as Dr. Harvey North
Patsy Kelly as Patsy Riley
ZaSu Pitts as Myra Pottle
Leonid Kinskey as Ivan Makail Ivanski
George E. Stone as Lefty
Gay Ellen Dakin as Baby
Charles C. Wilson as Detective
John Sheehan as Conductor
Edgar Edwards as State Trooper
Eric Alden as State Trooper
Sam McDaniel as Train Porter
J. Farrell MacDonald as RR Line Supt. Mulcahy (uncredited)