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1 June 1950 (USA) morePlot:
School teacher Janet Brooks innocently involves herself in a scandal while spending the week-end alone in the mountain cabin of her fiancée... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
a sleep-over, scandal, gossip, gangsters, fund raising and ostracizing in just 60 minutes moreCast
(Credited cast) | Dorothy Patrick | ... | Janet Brooks |
| Robert Rockwell | ... | Dr. Walter Phillips |
| Jimmy Lydon | ... | Freddy Brooks (as James Lydon) |
| Robert Armstrong | ... | Ed Somers |
| Larry J. Blake | ... | Pete Weiss |
| John Harmon | ... | Stubby Moore |
| Claire Du Brey | ... | Mother Celia Brooks |
| Richard Benedict | ... | Joe Bruno |
| Mickey Knox | ... | Tony Savoni |
| Danny Morton | ... | Al Drury, Desk Man (as Dann Morton) |
| Mack Williams | ... | Dr. Foster |
| Olan Soule | ... | Ralph Newell, Photographer (as Olan E. Soule) |
| Peter Prouse | ... | Ray Olsen, Reporter |
| Norman Field | ... | Dr. Evans |
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School teacher Janet Brooks (Dorothy Patrick) innocently involves herself in a scandal while spending the week-end alone in the mountain cabin of her fiancée, Dr. Walter Phillips (Robert Rockwell). She gives first aid to a wounded racketeer, Joe Bruno (Richard Benedict), who is running out on his mob with eighty thousand dollars in cash.
Unknown to Janet, Bruno hides the money in the cabin. She goes on an errand and two mobsters, Ed Somers (Robert Armstrong) and "Stubby" Moore (John Harmon), make a call on Bruno and then depart after delivering a couple of soon-to-be-fatal gunshot wounds. Bruno manages to get to the highway and hitches a ride from a passing motorist who drives him to the Coniston hospital. In front of a number of doctors as witnesses, Bruno draws up a will leaving the eighty-thousand bucks to Janet, but dies before he can reveal where the money is located.
The story hits the local headlines the next day and Janet's denials of any previous acquaintance with Bruno or knowledge of the money are disbelieved. Janet, her mother, Celia (Claire DuBrey), and her brother, Fred (James Lydon), are ostracized by the town. Only Walter, who is having trouble of his own trying to raise money to complete a polio wing for the hospital, stands by Janet.
Janet publicly announces that if the money ever comes into her possession, she will turn it over to the hospital fund. Somers and Moore intensify their search. But Fred, under pressure from Pete Weiss (Larry J. Blake), local racketeer to whom he owes a large gambling debt, finally succeeds in finding the money, but his conscience forces him to hide it again rather than turning it over to Weiss.
Then the rival gangster groups come face-to-face in a winner-take-all gun battle over the money, and the prospects of the hospital getting a new wing appear to be dim.