
After her father Stanley Jordan loses his wealth in market, Bonnie (Joan Crawford) goes to work as a cub reporter. Her brother Rodney (William Bakewell) is the wheelman in a gangland massacre. Bert (Cliff Edwards), a reporter on Bonnie's paper, is murdered while investigating. Bonnie gets to know gang leader Jake Luva (Clark Gable) and learns how the gang works and that her brother is involved. By the time it's over, her wealthy friend Bob (Lester Vail) sees how wonderful she... (Full plot summary below)
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After her father Stanley Jordan loses his wealth in market, Bonnie (Joan Crawford) goes to work as a cub reporter. Her brother Rodney (William Bakewell) is the wheelman in a gangland massacre. Bert (Cliff Edwards), a reporter on Bonnie's paper, is murdered while investigating. Bonnie gets to know gang leader Jake Luva (Clark Gable) and learns how the gang works and that her brother is involved. By the time it's over, her wealthy friend Bob (Lester Vail) sees how wonderful she is and falls in love with her for good.
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| Goatdog's MoviesMichael W. Phillips, Jr.A wonderful little film on its own, but it's also a handy little primer of early-1930s genre conventions. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyBeaumont directed this preposterous MGM melodrama, starring Joan Crawford as a rich girl, just before Clark Gable became a star and thus could still play a gangsters |
| User ReviewNorm dJoan Crawford suffers again. When here family is ruined by mobster Clark Gable, she becomes a reporter and sets out to get her revenge. Fairly standard stuff, but worth watching for some of the pre-Code sexiness and being loosely based on the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, which only happened two years before this film came out. |
| User ReviewLee Anne WJoan and her dirtbag brother are society layabouts whose father drops dead (and loses everything) when the stock market crashes. Noble Joan earns an honest living as a cub reporter, and dirtbag becomes a runner for bootlegging gangster Clark Gable. There's a nice underwear swimming scene and some cool clothes. The 58th of Joan's 81 movies I've seen. |
| User ReviewKatie RA decent pre-code crime film told primarily from the woman's perspective. It's an interesting combination of gangster film and newspaper drama. Joan Crawford puts in a solid performance, but it's Gable (as a bad guy) who's simply electrifying. |
| User ReviewRick REarly Crawford vehicle is decent film with a tough outlook but Joan hadn't quite adapted fully from silents into sound and does a great deal of eye popping to express emotion. She looks sensational though. |