When motorcycle cop Dick Fay gives a ticket to Phyllis Crawford, her father's graft-fed influence leads to his demotion to foot patrolman. When Fay leads a raid on a gangster's place he discovers Phyllis there, helps her escape, then blackmails her father.
Is it worth your time? If you like movies where the cop is just as crooked as the people he is chasing, you might find something to chew on here. It is not exactly high art, but it has a certain frantic energy. If you need your protagonists to be morally upright heroes, though, you are going to hate Dick Fay. He spends...
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"Is it worth your time? If you like movies where the cop is just as crooked as the people he is chasing, you might find something to chew on here. It is not exactly high art, but it has a certain frantic energy. If you need your protagonists to be morally upright heroes, though, you are going to hate Dick Fay. He spends most of the runtime just being plain petty. Spencer Tracy is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. You can see him trying to inject some actual human frustration into a script that ..."
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