A newspaper headline reveals ten bodies dumped overboard, and the suspicion of human trafficking is made by the Press. Ambitious reporter Claire Trevor manipulates her way onto a City newspaper, and finds herself working on this story with veteran reporter Brian Donlevy. A shooting in a nightclub leads them to witness Rita Cansino AKA Rita Hayworth, and sudden violence breaks out which leads Trevor and Donlevy to believe everything that they've suspected is true. This story of a serious issue, still prevalent today, is at its height when Trevor and Donlevy are having their disputes, but surprisingly faces during moments when the action is at its highest.
Classic film audiences will be curious to see the 18 year old Rita Hayworth in one of her earliest speaking film roles, and she commands every scene that she is in, mainly out of curiosity but also because of her not yet studio created beauty and her intensity. For comic relief, there's a receptionist played by an actress named Helen Troy who gets a few good lines, speaking extremely fast and gossiping about the goings-on not only at the newspaper but in her off screen life as well. Ralph Morgan is commanding as a local D.A. Hundreds of racket related film's came out in the 1930s and 40s, but I don't recall offhand having seen a film on this particular subject. As some of the survivors described their situation, it becomes a horrifying example of things still happening today. Trevor and Donlevy, in one of a handful of films they were in together, are great together.
Classic film audiences will be curious to see the 18 year old Rita Hayworth in one of her earliest speaking film roles, and she commands every scene that she is in, mainly out of curiosity but also because of her not yet studio created beauty and her intensity. For comic relief, there's a receptionist played by an actress named Helen Troy who gets a few good lines, speaking extremely fast and gossiping about the goings-on not only at the newspaper but in her off screen life as well. Ralph Morgan is commanding as a local D.A. Hundreds of racket related film's came out in the 1930s and 40s, but I don't recall offhand having seen a film on this particular subject. As some of the survivors described their situation, it becomes a horrifying example of things still happening today. Trevor and Donlevy, in one of a handful of films they were in together, are great together.