Directed by William A. Wellman • 1933 • United States
Starring Loretta Young, Franchot Tone, Ricardo Cortez

Loretta Young gets one of her finest showcases in this incident-packed pre-Code tale of a woman’s descent into crime. She stars as the streetwise Mary Martin, who, while on trial for murder, thinks back over her life—her tough upbringing in the slums and the men who put her in her present state of affairs. One bad break leads to another, and by the time she reaches adulthood Mary is mixed up with a gang of crooked gamblers. For the sake of Tom (Franchot Tone), a well-connected socialite who loves her unquestioningly, Mary tries to go straight—but her checkered past proves hard to shake.