A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store.
Acting
Ann Rutherford's surprisingly layered ex-con wife.
Writing
Economic storytelling that doesn't waste a frame.
Director
Jean Yarbrough
Preston Foster
Bart Madden
Ann Rutherford
Claire Norton
Alan Curtis
Edward "Eddie" Norton
Milburn Stone
District Attorney Sutton
Samuel S. Hinds
Judge Kincaid
Joe Sawyer
Police Capt. Thomas
Marc Lawrence
Donovan
John Berkes
Freddie
Howard Freeman
Trent W. Winkle
Oliver Blake
Herman
Joan Shawlee
Ruth (as Joan Fulton)
Ruby Dandridge
Ivory
Chester Clute
Disinterested Husband at Fashion Show
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ann Rutherford was simultaneously starring as Polly Benedict in the Andy Hardy series—imagine audiences seeing her as both wholesome teen and ex-con wife in the same year.
This 1946 release captures immediate postwar anxiety about employment for returning veterans with records, a real social crisis Hollywood rarely addressed directly.
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