Hush Money

HUSH MONEY misfires from the start and any intended suspense just doesn't happen. Bennett is living in the same house as a group of small-time confidence hustlers. They get involved in a holdup scheme that winds up in a murder, and Bennett is sent to jail for a year. She'd thought that she would marry ringleader Moore and had gone along for the ride, but once out of jail, she meets Cosgrove, a cop, and the big galoot takes a liking to her and wants to help her start over again. She also meets Albright, the urbane, suave, and essential man-about-town. They soon wed but she never tells him of her past. When Moore gets out of jail, he tries to blackmail Bennett. Cosgr...