Loretta Young stars in Midnight Mary which opens with her on trial for murder.
During a recess she thinks back on her life which was a pretty rough one and how
she got to this point with District Attorney Frank Conroy asking for the death
penalty.
Young is a girl from the wrong side of the tracks and every time she strove for respectability she got slapped back. She has two men in her life gangster Ricardo Cortez who is suave and dangerous and playboy lawyer Franchot Tone who MGM once again was putting in white tie and tails.
You know this is a pre-code film because at one point Loretta Young is shown to be in an undisguised brothel. Such places later on were only hinted at, never shown.
Such gangster regulars as Harold Huber and Warren Hymer are part of Cortez's mob. Andy Devine has a part as a kind of sidekick to Tone. But the best support in Midnight Mary comes from Una Merkel as a wisecracking easy come, easy go sort of gal.
Both Loretta Young and her two leading men are shown to great advantage in Midnight Mary. A good one for fans of all three to enjoy.
Young is a girl from the wrong side of the tracks and every time she strove for respectability she got slapped back. She has two men in her life gangster Ricardo Cortez who is suave and dangerous and playboy lawyer Franchot Tone who MGM once again was putting in white tie and tails.
You know this is a pre-code film because at one point Loretta Young is shown to be in an undisguised brothel. Such places later on were only hinted at, never shown.
Such gangster regulars as Harold Huber and Warren Hymer are part of Cortez's mob. Andy Devine has a part as a kind of sidekick to Tone. But the best support in Midnight Mary comes from Una Merkel as a wisecracking easy come, easy go sort of gal.
Both Loretta Young and her two leading men are shown to great advantage in Midnight Mary. A good one for fans of all three to enjoy.