Directed by:
William BerkeCinematography:
Mack StenglerComposer:
Walter GreeneCast:
Lola Lane, Sheldon Leonard, Pamela Blake, Elisha Cook Jr., Constance Worth, Claudia Drake, Fred Kohler Jr., Walter Baldwin, Virginia Brissac, Rex Lease (more)Plots(1)
Diana Leslie (Pamela Blake) is rescued from drowning by reporter Chris Williams (Sheldon Leonard). The latter believes it is an attempted murder rather than the suicide indicated by a note, since the girl had made an appointment to meet him at the dock. The story is told in flashback as Williams visits the people who know Diana. The parents (Virginia Brissac and Joel Friedkin) feel responsible as, against their wishes, Diana had accompanied musician Jimmie Lobo (Elisha Cook Jr.) to the Kitten Club and had gotten a job as a singer but they had not seen her following an argument when she came home that ended with her being slapped by her brother Ted (Fred Kohler Jr.). One of the Kitten Club showgirls, Flo (Constance Worth) tells Chris that when Diane came to the club for an audition, she incurred the wrath of the heavy-drinking featured singer Marianne Mason (Claudia Drake) and club owner Steve Raymond (Paul Gulifoye) delegated her to the hostess ranks of girls whose job was to steer customers to the illegal gambling. This led to a couple of suckers, Wilbur Harris (Walter Baldwin) and Ed Blake (Robert Emmett Keane), losing heavily in the crooked game with Harris committing suicide and Blake being killed in the the ensuing melee. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Lola Lane
USA
Best movies:
Marked Woman (1937)
Sheldon Leonard
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Uncertain Glory (1944)
Tortilla Flat (1942)
Pamela Blake
USA
Best movies:
Stage Door (1937)
This Gun for Hire (1942)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
Elisha Cook Jr.
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
The Killing (1956)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Constance Worth
Australia
Best movies:
The Set-Up (1949)
Suspicion (1941)
Cover Girl (1944)
Claudia Drake
USA
Best movies:
Detour (1945)
Reunion in France (1942)
Fred Kohler Jr.
Best movies:
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Walter Baldwin
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Virginia Brissac
USA
Best movies:
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
The Little Foxes (1941)
Rex Lease
USA
Best movies:
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Brute Force (1947)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Paul Guilfoyle
USA
Best movies:
White Heat (1949)
Julius Caesar (1953)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Thomas E. Jackson
USA
Best movies:
Scarlet Street (1945)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Robert Emmett Keane
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Uncertain Glory (1944)
It Happened Tomorrow (1944)