#75

Commonwealth pictures! Motto: "Gee, it's Common!"

Another stage-bound talky stand-around movie with no soundtrack except the rustlings of the scratched audio track. The bad girl:

Yes, Kong's great love. She did this little film the year after Kong, but she did eleven movies that year. Nothing was ever Kong-sized again, but she kept plugging - apart from a hiatus between '42 and '53, she worked. Drove a car into her 90s; died in 2004. They dimmed the lights of the Empire State Building for 15 minutes. She's good here, as usual, but movies never seemed to give her a fair break. You sensed there was more she could give.

Comic relief:

He was also in Kong, playing a photographer; better known for "Freaks."

The plot: a guy who was sent up to the Big House for manslaughter gets paroled, goes to a nice small quiet town to live a quiet life. See, he has a temper, and if that temper gets the best of him, he might slug someone dead again, and then it would be The Chair. (In the Big House.)

The fellow who's just simmering with barely suppressed rage:

Ralph Bellamy. No, I don't see it either.

Nell O'Day had a small role:

That's a Thirties look, eh? She had long hair as well, but I like her short.

So there you go. There are gangsters involved. Fay's in trouble. Everything works out okay in about 68 minutes.