Dorothy Burton (Faye Emerson) makes a fake police call and talks her way into a closed bank. It's a ruse for her bank robbery comrades to follow her through the unlocked doors. She gets left behind in the confusing aftermath. The cops start punching holes in her story and DA Lewis Sinton has her arrested. Radio personality Kenneth Phillips uses the case against Sinton but it turns out that he already knows the suspect. She pretends to be innocent and former friend Phillips actually believes her.
It's a fine little crime drama. This is a remake of a Barbara Stanwyck film which is itself based on a play written by former inmate Dorothy Mackaye. I don't really buy her confession to Phillips unless the movie builds up a love story history for those two. It takes a lot more to establish why she would confess to him. It would be more compelling for her to be convicted while maintaining her innocence to him. The more secrets she's hiding, the more compelling is her story. Otherwise, I do like the characters and the somewhat realistic female prison. This is fine.
It's a fine little crime drama. This is a remake of a Barbara Stanwyck film which is itself based on a play written by former inmate Dorothy Mackaye. I don't really buy her confession to Phillips unless the movie builds up a love story history for those two. It takes a lot more to establish why she would confess to him. It would be more compelling for her to be convicted while maintaining her innocence to him. The more secrets she's hiding, the more compelling is her story. Otherwise, I do like the characters and the somewhat realistic female prison. This is fine.