Take a look at the opening scene featuring Richard Talmadge in an ambulance, desperate to get out, and pulling himself up flipping himself onto the roof and riding like a circus performer down a city main street just to get to police headquarters. He wants to get to a police auction to see what happens to a particular trunk, and when the option is over, he breaks into that apartment and finds himself at gunpoint, which Mildred Harris searching futile through it for something. It's all to help her sister Thelma White, both the victims of blackmail.
"That girl has something on her mind, and it isn't a prayer book." So says Vera Lewis, Harris's mother-in-law, about White who lives with them. Apparently, Harris has gone to a man's apartment and is now being fleeced, desperate to get back her property of some valuable pearls so her husband, commissioner Robert Frazer, doesn't find out and accuse her of cheating on him.
It's a bit of a convoluted plot line and situation regarding the sisters, but the way it is presented is very entertaining and fast moving. The auction sequence alone is very funny with an obvious spinster bidding on a criminal's suitcase of love letters, apparently very racy, and she steals the scene simply by fanning herself in expectation of the reading that she will have later on. Several car chases and some sly witty dialog aid in making this poverty row crime comedy drama more entertaining with a low budget then most major studios did with all the gloss allowed to them.
"That girl has something on her mind, and it isn't a prayer book." So says Vera Lewis, Harris's mother-in-law, about White who lives with them. Apparently, Harris has gone to a man's apartment and is now being fleeced, desperate to get back her property of some valuable pearls so her husband, commissioner Robert Frazer, doesn't find out and accuse her of cheating on him.
It's a bit of a convoluted plot line and situation regarding the sisters, but the way it is presented is very entertaining and fast moving. The auction sequence alone is very funny with an obvious spinster bidding on a criminal's suitcase of love letters, apparently very racy, and she steals the scene simply by fanning herself in expectation of the reading that she will have later on. Several car chases and some sly witty dialog aid in making this poverty row crime comedy drama more entertaining with a low budget then most major studios did with all the gloss allowed to them.