Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.
Acting
Elissa Landi's face carries an entire doomed lifetime.
Direction
Dwan compresses tragedy into 57 ruthless minutes.
Writing
That tagline hits harder than most 3-hour epics.
Director
Allan Dwan
Elissa Landi
Margot Rande
Victor McLaglen
Scott Burrows
Una Merkel
June
Irene Rich
Mrs. Luther
Alan Dinehart
Blake
Theodore von Eltz
Tony Rande
Oscar Apfel
Judge Edwin Luther
Mae Busch
Arlene
Ruth Donnelly
Fanny
Eileen Percy
Stella
Blanche Friderici
Mrs. Johnson
Edwin Maxwell
Owner of Property
Jacquie Lyn
Tonia (as Jacquie Lynn)
Blanche Payson
Matron
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the brief 1930-1934 'pre-Code' window, this slipped through before the Hays Office clamped down on moral ambiguity and punished women on screen.
Allan Dwan directed over 400 films across 50 years; this tiny, forgotten tragedy might be his most brutally efficient.
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