Claire Trevor (Dixie) is a singer and gets involved with gangster Akim Tamiroff (Kalkas) who runs a slot machine scam. Lloyd Nolan (Jim) is a reporter that also gets involved.
There are interesting scenes - Tamiroff has a lift shaft that gets put to use on a couple of occasions and Trevor sings a couple of good songs. Outside of this, the film disappoints given the cast. I only watched the film a week ago and have forgotten about it. It's a time-filler with a lashing of boredom. It's a shame. Another shame is that Louise Brooks was in this film but her scenes were deleted. She would have fit in as one of the bad nightclub girls who has a rivalry with Tamiroff for the gangster's affections. As things are, it makes no sense that he is happy not to progress anything with Trevor and waits for her to 'come around' to him. No sense. However, it would make sense if he knew he had Brooks always waiting for him. By cutting her out of a role like this, his actions make - I repeat - no sense.
I asked a lift engineer if he had ever found a dead body when carrying out lift maintenance. He said he hadn't but he had discovered a litter of puppies that had been dumped down the lift shaft once.
There are interesting scenes - Tamiroff has a lift shaft that gets put to use on a couple of occasions and Trevor sings a couple of good songs. Outside of this, the film disappoints given the cast. I only watched the film a week ago and have forgotten about it. It's a time-filler with a lashing of boredom. It's a shame. Another shame is that Louise Brooks was in this film but her scenes were deleted. She would have fit in as one of the bad nightclub girls who has a rivalry with Tamiroff for the gangster's affections. As things are, it makes no sense that he is happy not to progress anything with Trevor and waits for her to 'come around' to him. No sense. However, it would make sense if he knew he had Brooks always waiting for him. By cutting her out of a role like this, his actions make - I repeat - no sense.
I asked a lift engineer if he had ever found a dead body when carrying out lift maintenance. He said he hadn't but he had discovered a litter of puppies that had been dumped down the lift shaft once.