Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge upon those who wronged her in powerful but lawful ways.Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge upon those who wronged her in powerful but lawful ways.Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge upon those who wronged her in powerful but lawful ways.
Jessie Arnold
- Prison Matron
- (uncredited)
Barbara Bedford
- Sarah - Gilder's Secretary
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen Police Sergeant Cassidy, portrayed by William Gargan, comes to see Joe and the gang, he says, "Don't tell me I'm crashing into society, some of the 400 are going to be awfully sore about missing this party." "The 400" were the purported late gilded age (1880s and later) social elite of New York City, a term coined by Ward McAllister (the self-appointed arbiter of New York society of the late 1800s), and the term supposedly represented the number of people who could be accommodated in the ballroom of Mrs (Caroline) William Backhouse Astor, Jr.
- GoofsAt the beginning of the film, as the detectives are searching the locker room, a shadow of the boom microphone drops onto the bank of lockers being searched by the first detective - just before the stolen jeweled clip is found.
- ConnectionsEdited from Paid (1930)
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Legal loopholes
Shop assistant Ruth Hussey (Mary) is falsely accused of theft and prosecuted by department store owner Samual S Hinds (Gilder) as an example to others. She is sentenced to 3 years in prison and promises to get revenge on him.
What makes this enjoyable is that there are no pathetic women who cry and go all soppy or scream and faint and all that kind of nonsense which I find intolerable. So, the film scores an extra point for me on this front. Hussey vows revenge and that is exactly what she does as she emerges from her time in prison having studied legal loopholes. This allows her to execute her plans on her release and ensure that she operates within the law.
The cast are all good. I couldn't stand Tom Neal (Dick) as the department store's son at the beginning but he won me over so another point for that. Speaking of Tom Neal, this cast contains 3 people who you should read up about - Tom Neal, Paul Kelly (Joe) and Rita Johnson (Agnes). A couple of nasty people and a victim of a cover-up - a hairdryer accidently 'fell' on her head causing brain damage!!!
An entertaining short film that is worth keeping to watch again.
What makes this enjoyable is that there are no pathetic women who cry and go all soppy or scream and faint and all that kind of nonsense which I find intolerable. So, the film scores an extra point for me on this front. Hussey vows revenge and that is exactly what she does as she emerges from her time in prison having studied legal loopholes. This allows her to execute her plans on her release and ensure that she operates within the law.
The cast are all good. I couldn't stand Tom Neal (Dick) as the department store's son at the beginning but he won me over so another point for that. Speaking of Tom Neal, this cast contains 3 people who you should read up about - Tom Neal, Paul Kelly (Joe) and Rita Johnson (Agnes). A couple of nasty people and a victim of a cover-up - a hairdryer accidently 'fell' on her head causing brain damage!!!
An entertaining short film that is worth keeping to watch again.
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- Aug 28, 2023
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- Runtime1 hour 5 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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