A melodramatic part-talkie, Curtiz's first, which stars Costello as a cabaret dancer who gets entangled with gangster Nagel. He thinks that she is concealing $50,000 in stolen bills which is his and tries to befriend her in order to learn if she really has it. She insists, truthfully, that
she doesn't have the money. Lewis, another thug and a colleague of Nagel's, tries to force the money out of her in a secluded mountain cabin. Before the situation gets ugly, however, Nagel breaks down the door and beats Lewis senseless. Nagel then realizes how much he loves Costello. TENDERLOIN
was written by Darryl F. Zanuck under one of his three aliases, Melville Crossman--the...
Released:
1928
Rated:
NR
Length:
88 mins