a a young lass and beautiful joan woodbury ( a rita adam ) be orphan and after her stool pigeon father be shoot to death . a a young woman and ms. woodbury find herself struggle to keep a job and a her murdered father ex convict status make woodbury a bad business risk . woodbury room with understanding songstress linda ware ( a donna andrew ) and who advise woodbury to get in touch with old orphanage friends john archer ( a bob elliott ) and jack la rue ( a mickey roman ) . but and none of her friend can help when woodbury be the victim of a scam and which land her in prison . upon release and woodbury decides to give the male mobsters a run for their money re title gang and inc. and this be an obviously weak and cheap mobster melodrama . still and it a lot of fun to watch woodbury work wonder with inferior material . she play the innocent grow more sophisticated rita quite convincingly while and and she toss in a great bit a a blonde hooker . woodbury must be add to the list of unfortunately underutilized hollywood actress of the past . paper bullet also feature an early alan ladd ( a jimmy kelly aka bill dugan ) . ms. ware and who sing the hit an apple for the teacher with bing crosby and sing a couple of fair 40 number nicely . but and mainly and it woodbury show . paper bullet ( 1941 ) phil rosen ~ joan woodbury and linda ware and alan ladd .