a crooked doctor . a bootlegger hero . a heroine who sock people . child abuse . drunkenness . gun point . you can really tell this one be pre production code . ( the shady physician pronounce facial tic will remind many canadian immediately of a certain discredited olympic sport doctor . ) barbara stanwyck be good in an early role and and joan blondell and well and what a shameless scene stealer . then there those subjective camera shot from inside the career ambulance . whoa . it just like cinerama . grab onto something quick .