An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 bank robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners have different ideas.
- 5.5
- 1942
- Released
- 1h 2m
Faye Emerson
Dorothy Burton
Julie Bishop
Myrtle Reed
Frank Wilcox
Kenneth Phillips
Roland Drew
Carey Wells
Jackie Gleason
Wilson
Ruth Ford
Lucy Fenton
Virginia Brissac
Mrs. Stoner
Dorothy Vaughan
Jenkins
Dorothy Adams
Deaf Annie
William Hopper
John
Vera Lewis
Ma Silsby
Herbert Rawlinson
Lewis Sinton
Peggy Diggins
Mary
Charles C. Wilson
Detective
William Phillips
Stew
Frank Mayo
Walker
Leah Baird
Matron
Fred Kelsey
Policeman (uncredited)Released
en
- #gangster
- #stolen money
- #women's prison
- #prison warden
- #prison escape
- #bank robbery
- #criminal gang
- #botched robbery
- #hidden money
- #lip reading
- #plea
- #snitch
- #radio announcer
- #female gangster
Reviews
This certainly doesn't hang about - it is a fast paced and quite enjoyable crime noir. Faye Emerson plays "Dot" who is the stooge at a bank robbery. Her only problem is that the robbers get away with $40,000 and she gets caught and sent to jail; not before, that is, she reclaims the missing loot and deposits it with her landlady for safe-keeping. One of her fellow inmates can lip read, realises wh