She sang torch songs, now she's singing to a jury — and nobody's buying it.
Nightclub singer Alice Carroll is found in the office of club owner Al Barrow, who is lying dead on the floor. Alice has been overheard threatening to kill Barrow rather than give in to his advances. She protests her innocence, but the District Attorney doesn't believe her and charges her with Barrow's murder. However, things aren't quite as cut-and-dried as the D.A. believes them to be.
Acting
Madge Bellamy's desperate, defiant nightclub innocence.
Direction
Beaudine's efficient pulp mechanics in just 60 minutes.
Director
William Beaudine
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made just before the Hays Code crackdown, this is peak 'sin and cynicism' cinema that vanished for decades.
William Beaudine directed over 350 films; this was one of four he cranked out in 1929 alone.
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