
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.
Cast

Warner Baxter
Jackson 'Jack' Durant

Myrna Loy
Gertie Waxted

Charles Butterworth
Layton

Mae Clarke
Mimi Montagne

Phillips Holmes
Tom Siddall

C. Henry Gordon
Jim Crelliman

Martha Sleeper
Sue Leonard

Nat Pendleton
Tony Gazotti

George E. Stone
Tim Murtoch

Robert Emmett O'Connor
Police Lt. 'Steve' Stevens

Raymond Hatton
Bodyguard
Arthur Belasco
Bodyguard

William Bailey
Maitre D' at Pinnacle Club (uncredited)

Ed Brady
Man at Crelliman's Place (uncredited)

Lynton Brent
Reporter (uncredited)

Theresa Harris
Lili (uncredited)

Edward Hearn
Detective (uncredited)

Samuel S. Hinds
Stuyvesant (uncredited)

Tom Kennedy
Joe (uncredited)

George Magrill
Crelliman's Butler (uncredited)
Miriam Marlin
Lottie a Chorine (uncredited)
Henry Otho
Crelliman's Henchman (uncredited)

Lee Phelps
Detective (uncredited)

Frank Rice
Unknown Man on Phone (uncredited)

William Stack
Rutherford (uncredited)

Carl Stockdale
Levi Levitoff (uncredited)

Charles Sullivan
Crelliman's Henchman (uncredited)

Harry Tenbrook
Customer at Crelliman's Place (uncredited)

Guy Usher
News Editor (uncredited)
Crew

Edwin B. Willis
Interior Designer

W.S. Van Dyke
Director

Frances Goodrich
Screenplay

Albert Hackett
Screenplay
Arthur Somers Roche
Story
Robert Kern
Editor

Harold Rosson
Director of Photography
Lucien N. Andriot
Director of Photography

Hunt Stromberg
Producer

Adrian
Costume Design

Douglas Shearer
Sound Director
William Axt
Original Music Composer
Alexander Toluboff
Art Direction
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