A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting.
Acting
Ann Dvorak burns the screen with weary defiance.
Direction
Curtiz packs more shadows than most 90-minute films.
Writing
Pre-Code dialogue that actually sounds like people talking.
Director
Michael Curtiz
Ann Dvorak
Madeleine Maude 'Molly' Louvain
Lee Tracy
Scott 'Scotty' Cornell
Richard Cromwell
James 'Jimmy' Cook
Guy Kibbee
Pop, a Policeman
Leslie Fenton
Nick 'Nicky' Grant
Frank McHugh
Skeets, a Reporter
Evalyn Knapp
Doris
Charles Middleton
Police Capt. Slade
Mary Doran
Dance Hall Girl
Thomas E. Jackson
Police Sergeant
C. Henry Gordon
Detective Martin
Louise Beavers
Washroom Attendant (uncredited)
Wade Boteler
Detective (uncredited)
George Chandler
Reporter (uncredited)
Richard Cramer
Detective Baldwin (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Michael Curtiz shot this between Doctor X and Mystery of the Wax Museum, somehow making three classics in one year.
The Hays Code arrived months later; this is Hollywood's last gasp of honest sin before the moralists took over.
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