There weren't too many actresses who were better at playing the victim than Sylvia Sidney. In this, one of five films she made under director Gering's aegis, Sidney is Mary Richards (oddly, that was the name Mary Tyler Moore used for her TV show), who had been known as "Baby Face Mary"
when she was part of a con game with her husband, Harrigan, who is still in the slammer as the picture opens. Sidney is just getting out of prison on a rainy day when she hops into a cab driven by Raft, just to get out of the downpour. She can't afford to take the taxi anywhere but he feels sorry
for her and lets her stay at his apartment that night without making any demands, sexual...
Released:
1933
Rated:
NR
Length:
76 mins