**SPOILERS**** Gangster Johnny Moon,Allan Byron, is seen in the beginning of the movie getting away with murder when he's found innocent by a jury despite all the evidence against him. It turns out that his sister in law Helen Martin played the very married,eight times, Arline Judge who lost her job as a teacher because of her connection to Johnny who later ends up putting an end to his criminal career. By pulling strings Helen get a job as an assistant supervisor at a womens'a correctional lock-up run by one of Johnny's stooges Marcus, Clancy Cooper, who runs the place like a Nazi concentration camp.
It's after one of the inmates dies due to not getting any medical help that Helen goes over Marcus's head and reports him to the state governor. This has Helen put on Marcus's sh*t list who's in bed with the corrupt city Mayor McCarthy who is in fact controlled by Johnny Moon. It's when Johhny's girlfriend Rita Randall, Robin Raymond, is sent to the women's reformatory after being arrest for drunk & disorderly, as well as shoplifting, that she 's soon put under the wing of Helen who shows her that being a law abiding citizen is much better then being Johnny's gun-moll. That has Johnny who suspects, and is right, that Rita is going to turn against him and expose his crimes has her released from prison and bumped off by his driver and #1 hit-man Pinkhead played by Sid Melton who has the uncanny ability to remove and put back on his hat in a flash without anybody noticing it!
****SPOILERS*** Johnny's luck runs out when he tries to have Pinkhead knock off the drunk as a skunk Lionel Cleeter, Emmett Lynn,who witnessed him killing Rita and was ready, when he sobered up, to go to the police and D.A's office with the damning information. With Cleeter somehow surviving the hit it was all over for Johnny and his partner Pinkhead with the police closing in on them. Helen who in fact started the ball rolling ended up being supervisor of the girls reformatory, after Marcus was put behind bars, and taught the girls there to respect the law as well as themselves which not only turned their lives around but made them able to face the outside world.
P.S I noticed that some of the L.A street scenes filmed at night were later inserted as well as colorized in the 1975 Robert Mitchum film noir classic "Fearwell my Lovely".
It's after one of the inmates dies due to not getting any medical help that Helen goes over Marcus's head and reports him to the state governor. This has Helen put on Marcus's sh*t list who's in bed with the corrupt city Mayor McCarthy who is in fact controlled by Johnny Moon. It's when Johhny's girlfriend Rita Randall, Robin Raymond, is sent to the women's reformatory after being arrest for drunk & disorderly, as well as shoplifting, that she 's soon put under the wing of Helen who shows her that being a law abiding citizen is much better then being Johnny's gun-moll. That has Johnny who suspects, and is right, that Rita is going to turn against him and expose his crimes has her released from prison and bumped off by his driver and #1 hit-man Pinkhead played by Sid Melton who has the uncanny ability to remove and put back on his hat in a flash without anybody noticing it!
****SPOILERS*** Johnny's luck runs out when he tries to have Pinkhead knock off the drunk as a skunk Lionel Cleeter, Emmett Lynn,who witnessed him killing Rita and was ready, when he sobered up, to go to the police and D.A's office with the damning information. With Cleeter somehow surviving the hit it was all over for Johnny and his partner Pinkhead with the police closing in on them. Helen who in fact started the ball rolling ended up being supervisor of the girls reformatory, after Marcus was put behind bars, and taught the girls there to respect the law as well as themselves which not only turned their lives around but made them able to face the outside world.
P.S I noticed that some of the L.A street scenes filmed at night were later inserted as well as colorized in the 1975 Robert Mitchum film noir classic "Fearwell my Lovely".