A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
Acting
Lionel Atwill's smarmy investigator steals every scene
Writing
Twisty 62-minute heist that wastes zero minutes
Director
James Cruze
Richard Cromwell
Jimmy Caldwell
Helen Mack
Ruth Holden
Lionel Atwill
Mike Roberts
Horace McMahon
Blackie Clayton
Russ Powell
Chief Ira Foster
Billy Bevan
McLean
Marjorie Main
Martha Foster
Rex Evans
Victor J. Holbrook
Joseph Crehan
District Attorney
Arthur Hoyt
Beamish
Syd Saylor
Big Hobo
Chester Clute
Dan O'Fearna
Selmer Jackson
Judge
Lane Chandler
Detective (uncredited)
Richard Cramer
Detective (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This slipped through just before the Hays Code fully clamped down, letting criminals be sympathetic protagonists—a rarity that vanished for decades.
Director James Cruze was a silent film veteran who never quite cracked sound; this was one of his last decent gigs before the industry chewed him up.
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