Stern district attorney John Raymond sentences innocent June Lawrence to prison along with her guilty husband Dan. After she dies in prison, her brother, reporter Jerry Heath, vows revenge.


Is this worth your time tonight? If you love dusty, fast-moving pre-code melodramas where people make the worst possible decisions, yes. But if you want actual logic or characters who act like real humans, you will probably hate this thing within ten minutes. 🍿It is one of those incredibly cheap B-movies from 1931 tha...


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"Is this worth your time tonight? If you love dusty, fast-moving pre-code melodramas where people make the worst possible decisions, yes. But if you want actual logic or characters who act like real humans, you will probably hate this thing within ten minutes. 🍿It is one of those incredibly cheap B-movies from 1931 that moves so fast it forgets to explain why anyone is doing anything. The whole plot kicks off because a District Attorney named Raymond sends an innocent woman to jail, where she di..."
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