Dr. Kramer, secretly married to cabaret dancer Vivian Collins, forces his wife to encourage the attentions of wealthy Tom Bradshaw in order to blackmail Tom's father, Judge Bradshaw.

A flickering nitrate fever-dream, The Broadway Madonna arrives like a blood-orange moon over 1928 Broadway—incandescent, corrosive, and gone before you can blink. The film—long thought lost until a Portuguese print surfaced in a Porto attic—reveals itself as a venomous sonnet to masquerade and manipulation. Director L...


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" A flickering nitrate fever-dream, The Broadway Madonna arrives like a blood-orange moon over 1928 Broadway—incandescent, corrosive, and gone before you can blink. The film—long thought lost until a Portuguese print surfaced in a Porto attic—reveals itself as a venomous sonnet to masquerade and manipulation. Director Leon D’Arcy, armed with a surgeon’s eye (and perhaps a scalpel obsession), carves open the jazz-soaked underbelly of Manhattan nightlife, exposing arteries of greed that pulse benea..."
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