Year: 1933
Duration: 01:07:43
Directed by: Edward F. Cline
Actors: Mae Clarke, Ralph Bellamy, Marie Prevost, Hale Hamilton, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Ernest Wood, Sam Godfrey, John Paul Jones
Language: English
Country: USA
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Description: After petty racketeer Tony aids Sylvia Day’s sick father, she reluctantly acquiesces to his demand that she participate in his latest scheme. With Sylvia’s help, Tony stages fake pickpocketing in department stores, where the owners accede to Tony’s extortion demands lest he spread the word of the alleged crime sprees in their stores. Sylvia is caught, however, and sentenced to two years in prison. She vows to seek revenge against Joe Smith, the department store manager whose intervention could have saved her, and her opportunity comes when in prison she meets Jeanie, a small-time criminal. Jeanie reveals that she married Joe many years ago but was deserted by him long before her conviction. Anxious to get out of prison, Sylvia starts a fire and then heroically extinguishes it. After she is granted a parole for her seeming courage, she begins to put her plan into action. Tony proposes to her and offers to start up their racket again, but Sylvia refuses. One night, she meets Joe at a party during which he has been drinking heavily, and he awakens the next morning to find Sylvia in his apartment. She tells him that, while they were drunk, they eloped and married. Tony, whom Sylvia has bribed to pose as a minister, convinces Joe that he is indeed married. Fearing scandal and a charge of bigamy, Joe agrees to support Sylvia for the next year while she is still under the supervision of her parole officer. Sylvia enjoys a comfortable existence at Joe’s expense, and the couple even convince Joe’s boss, Mr. Taylor, that they are happily married. While Taylor plans to promote Joe to enhance his new status as a family man, Tony grows bitterly jealous when Sylvia again repulses his advances. For revenge, Tony plants a counterfeit bill in her purse, but Joe convinces her parole officer that he was given the bill at the store. Astonished by Joe’s kind act, Sylvia gives up her plans for revenge. She intends to walk out on him to spare him any further trouble, but before she can leave, Jeanie appears after being paroled. Unaware of Sylvia’s relationship with Joe, Jeanie convinces her to accompany her to Florida after she blackmails her husband. Jeanie is unable to find Joe, however, and so the next day, the two women board the train. Sylvia leaves with a heavy heart, for she has realizes that she is in love with Joe, but her mood changes quickly when Jeanie reveals that she secretly divorced Joe years ago. Sylvia rushes back to Joe, who is waiting for her after having obtained a full confession from Tony. The reunited couple resolve to marry for real and start with a clean slate.
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