Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.
Acting
Myrna Loy's pre-Nora Charles wit and wounded steel.
Direction
Van Dyke's 'one-take wonder' efficiency—88 minutes, zero fat.
Costume
Gertie's gowns that scream money she didn't earn.
Director
W.S. Van Dyke
Warner Baxter
Jackson 'Jack' Durant
Myrna Loy
Gertie Waxted
Charles Butterworth
Layton
Mae Clarke
Mimi Montagne
Phillips Holmes
Tom Siddall
C. Henry Gordon
Jim Crelliman
Martha Sleeper
Sue Leonard
Nat Pendleton
Tony Gazotti
George E. Stone
Tim Murtoch
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Police Lt. 'Steve' Stevens
Raymond Hatton
Bodyguard
William Bailey
Maitre D' at Pinnacle Club (uncredited)
Ed Brady
Man at Crelliman's Place (uncredited)
Lynton Brent
Reporter (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Van Dyke shot this in 15 days—his nickname was 'One-Take Woody' for a reason.
Loy's character would've been unrecognizable just one year later: the Production Code turned 'kept women' into cautionary corpses.
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