by Hal Erickson
synopsis
This second filmization of Paul Armstrong's play Escape is a bleak study of slum life. Virginia Valli plays May Joyce, the daughter of a scummy bootlegger who falls in love with medical intern Jerry Magee (William Russell). When May is forced to go to work in a sleazy nightclub, Jerry becomes so disconsolate that he loses his job and takes to bootlegging himself. Only when forced to confront himself does Jerry straighten up and seek out a new life, with May at his side. William Demarest provides comic relief as a minor gangster.
characteristics
- Starting Over
- Down On Their Luck
- Pillage
- Medical
- Plunder
- Shipment
- Love
- Raid
- Invader
- Employment
- Daughter
- Escape
- Excess
- Club [organization]
- Father
