although this be typical of the low budget quicky that warner churn out like hotcake in the thirty it offer bette davis in her most youthfully appeal down to earth platinum blonde girl phase . you can find the same character in three on a match and the girl from 10th avenue and the petrified forest and others . she exude an innocent but intelligent and unaffected femininity that seem to have evaporate by the time she hit her stride with jezebel and so it good that this phase of her career be preserve if only to track her evolution a an actress . note the energy and vitality she inject ( perhaps effortlessly ) into a supporting role a the girlfriend wife and steal every scene she in without rely on conventional beauty . it kind of fun also to see how the scenarist manage to leap from one implausible and contrive plot development to the next but that a secondary matter because most of these film be beyond belief . the point be to make a moral point and not to be narratively convince . the point here be represent evil gangster and beware of the authority because they will get you .