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About
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a sleazy dancehall girl dupe a high rise riveter into marriage so she can live off of him. But when he loses his job and his marbles, she ends up supporting him with money from her side man--and misses no opportunity to rub it in his face that she's now supporting him in his emasculated state. As the animosity grows and things get more and more unbearable, he is eventually driven to desperate measures.
Theatrical
May 28, 1932
Keywords
death row
just married
woman between two men
murder
flashback
electric chair
capital punishment
execution
bookie
dancehall girl
pre-code
told in flashback
evil woman
wife murderer
sleaze
riveter
domineering wife
life lessons
emasculation
nasty wife
extreme measures
dancehall
downward spiral
naive young man
uncaring wife
adulterous wife
fall from height
Cast
Full credits →E
Edward G. Robinson
John Allen
V
Vivienne Osborne
Shirley Day
G
Guy Kibbee
Bookie
P
Preston Foster
Bud Clark
J
J. Carrol Naish
Tony
F
Frederick Burton
Judge
H
Harry Beresford
Doctor
D
Dorothea Wolbert
Lizzie, Cleaning Lady
B
Berton Churchill
The Warden
W
William Janney
College Boy at Execution
E
Edward McWade
The Prison Doctor
G
Gladys Lloyd
Woman
A
Adrienne Dore
Annie (uncredited)
L
Luana Walters
Tart (uncredited)
