Lady Gangster (1942)
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners have different ideas.
- Robert Florey
- Anthony Coldeway
- Dorothy Mackaye
- Carlton Miles
Rating: 5.8/10 by 18 users
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Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 02 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: gangster, bank robbery
This certainly doesn't hang about - it is a fast paced and quite enjoyable crime noir. Faye Emerson plays "Dot" who is the stooge at a bank robbery. Her only problem is that the robbers get away with $40,000 and she gets caught and sent to jail; not before, that is, she reclaims the missing loot and deposits it with her landlady for safe-keeping. One of her fellow inmates can lip read, realises what's she's done and her life takes a turn for the more dangerous... It's got pretty soggy dialogue and the prison is more like a YWCA with fewer bars. There's a fun car chase at the end, though....
