“FIND THIS WOMAN! Hold her for the police! For her lips hold the fate of six people! Murder! Suspense! Mystery! Intrigue! Romance!”
No good deed goes unpunished for Lena Karelson (Wynne Gibson), hooker with a heart of gold trying to go straight in the big city. Covering a bachelor party for a friend in need, Lena winds up at a gambling house where she is the sole witness when Mayor Wentworth's drunken lout of a son shoots the owner. Wentworth's political machine wants Lena to falsely incriminate mob boss Callahan to bolster their re-election campaign. Callahan's mouthpiece nabs Lena first, conveying her stealthily by train from Toledo to New York to prevent her from testifying against the big boss. A midnight special smash-up, a tense courtroom finale and true love triumphant round out this typical Fox pre-Code programmer, released just before the Legion of Decency dropped the hammer in 1934.
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Cast
26 people
Wynne Gibson
Lena Karelson
Also in
City Streets
Night After Night
Preston Foster
Jason Everett
Known for
The Time Travelers
I Shot Jesse James
Frederick Nebel
Sol M Wurtzel
Duncan Cramer
Kenneth MacKenna
Known for
Judgment at Nuremberg
Mona Barrie
Ada Robillard
Also in
Charlie Chan in London
Dawn on the Great Divide
Sol M. Wurtzel
Lester Cole
Harvey Stephens
Martin Knox
Known for
The Bat
Sergeant York
Ernest Palmer
Roger Imhof
MacGowan
Known for
The Grapes of Wrath
This Gun for Hire
Kenneth MacKenna Director · Lester Cole Writer Frederick Nebel Author
United States release January 1, 1934 · Produced in United States
Production
Fox Film Corporation
Production · Distribution
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · January 1, 1934
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Australia
May 4, 1934
Spain
December 22, 1941 · Madrid
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