Directed by Robert Florey, 1942
Faye Emerson plays aspiring actress Dot Burton, whose chance association with a gang of bank robbers leads inexorably to a life of crime...
She plays a minor role in a bank robbery for them and yet they plan to cut her out of the spoils. So she cunningly steals the 40 Gs from them and gets herself arrested. she figures it's worth taking the rap for that amount of dough. And that the gang members themselves will be inside by the time she's due for parole. Life inside is complicated by a young woman the inmates call 'Stool Pigeon.' She's always up to no good and receives help form a deaf woman who can read lips. This leads to her newspaper friend's attempts to get her released on parole to be rejected. The snoop makes out it was his fault. When she learns it wasn't she has to break out of jail to rescue him from the revenge she's lined up for him. Disappointingly, she doesn't keep the money and turn herself into a crime boss. Instead, she marries this guy she returns to acting. And having a job lined up enables her to receive parole.
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