A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
Direction
Borzage finds beauty in a Traveler's Aid office—only he could.
Acting
Kay Francis delivers world-weary warmth that carries the whole picture.
Director
Frank Borzage
Kay Francis
Lynn Palmer
George Brent
Mack Hale
Patricia Ellis
Velma Tuthill
Donald Woods
John Wesley
Robert Barrat
Stanislaus Janauschek
Barton MacLane
Sharkey
Joseph Crehan
Johnny Quinn
William Harrigan
Updyke
Henry O'Neill
Mr. Tuthill
Frankie Darro
James 'Jimmy' Rivers
John Wray
Mike Gibbons
Edward McWade
Tim Powers
June Travis
Mary Rand
Ann Shoemaker
Mrs. Tuthill
Gavin Gordon
Jack
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Traveler's Aid was a real Progressive Era organization; this film captures 1930s anxieties about transient populations.
Shot during the brief window before the Hays Code fully clamped down—note how much moral ambiguity slips through.
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