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5.7/10   133 votes
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Director:
Sam Wood
Writers:
Bayard Veiller (play)
Lucien Hubbard (adaptation) ...
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Release Date:
30 December 1930 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Mary Turner goes up for three years on a crime she didn't commit. Once out she and former prison mates... more | add synopsis
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A girl seeking revenge finds love more

Cast

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Joan Crawford ... Mary Turner
Robert Armstrong ... Joe Garson
Marie Prevost ... Agnes 'Aggie' Lynch
Douglass Montgomery ... Bob Gilder (as Kent Douglass)
John Miljan ... Insp. Burke
Purnell Pratt ... Edward Gilder (as Purnell B. Pratt)
Hale Hamilton ... District Attorney Demarest
Robert Emmett O'Connor ... Det. Sgt. Cassidy (as Robert Emmet O'Connor)
Tyrell Davis ... Eddie Griggs (as Tyrrell Davis)
William Bakewell ... B.M. Carney (lawyer)
George Cooper ... Red
Gwen Lee ... Bertha
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Isabel Withers ... Helen Morris (scenes deleted)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Within the Law (UK)
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Runtime:
86 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Approved | Finland:(Banned) (1931)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The lead role was commissioned for Norma Shearer but she had to withdraw owing to pregnancy. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Happy Days Are Here Again more

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4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
A girl seeking revenge finds love, 14 January 2005
8/10
Author: sideways8 from Kings Park NY

This was a find. Good acting, a good plot and dialog way ahead of its time. I know of no other 1930 movie with its sophistication of dialog. Great directing by Sam Wood making sure that all of the intricacies of plot were brought out.

Joan Crawford was a wrongfully convicted convict out to exact revenge upon the store owner/magnate who sent her up the river who teams with Robert Armstrong to become rich shadily but by means "Within the Law".

The final confrontation in the DA's office requires that you pay attention. This movie is ripe for a remake. I see George Clooney as Robert Armstrong's character and Leonardo De Caprio as the son. Robert Armstrong was very strong in this role.

It's TCM keeper.

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