This is the story of a woman who kicks out her no-good second husband after he wastes all her money. Since gambling and drink had taken all her money, she decides to use the money from a windfall to open an illegal after hours night club and gambling parlor, in order to provide her two daughters with a high society education. Eventually she gets caught, and the daughters take over the night club and legitimize it. But the daughters have conflicts, and the no-good husband shows up to complicate matters.
Acting
Isobel Elsom's deliciously shady maternal resolve.
Direction
McGann crams a miniseries worth of plot into 71 minutes.
Director
William C. McGann
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pre-Code Hollywood (1930-1934) let women be criminals, sexual, and unrepentant—this was made mere months before the Hays Code cracked down.
Warner Bros. churned out five 'illegal gambling den matriarch' pictures in this era; this one's the most shamelessly maternal.
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