My Sin

This was Bankhead's second talkie after the rotten debut in THE NIGHT ANGEL. Unfortunately, this entry was no better and the energy and charisma of Bankhead's stage performances was untranslatable to the screen. MY SIN opens in Panama where March, an attorney who has fallen upon drunken times, is imbibing his way to destruction. He encounters Bankhead, a nitery chirper, whose mate is hounding her for money. She gets into a battle with the man and shoots him dead. But her reputation is such in Panama that no one will undertake her defense until March decides to clean up his act and handle her case. He goes from besotted counselor to another Clarence Darrow in a few ...