94 minutes
6/1/1938
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
Sylvia Sidney
as Helen Roberts
George Raft
as Joe Dennis
Barton MacLane
as Mickey
Harry Carey
as Mr. Morris
Roscoe Karns
as Cuffy
George E. Stone
as Pasty
Warren Hymer
as Gimpy Carter
Robert Cummings
as Jim
Adrian Morris
as Knucks
Roger Gray
as Bath House
Cecil Cunningham
as Mrs. Morris
Vera Gordon
as Mrs. Levine
Egon Brecher
as Mr. Levine
Willard Robertson
as Dayton
Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
as Taxi
Bernadene Hayes
as Nellie
Joyce Compton
as Curly Blonde
Carol Paige
as Torch Singer
Ernie Adams
as Nick (uncredited)
Sam Ash
as Second Floorwalker (uncredited)
Max Barwyn
as German Waiter (uncredited)
Harlan Briggs
as Thomas McTavish (uncredited)
Marie Burton
as Sales Clerk (uncredited)
Ethel Clayton
as Employment Agency Clerk (uncredited)
Sheila Darcy
as Perfume Clerk (uncredited)
William B. Davidson
as N. G. Orton, Attorney-at-Law (uncredited)
Hal K. Dawson
as Information Clerk (uncredited)
Dorothy Dayton
as Sales Clerk (uncredited)
Paula DeCardo
as Cigarette Girl (uncredited)
Richard Denning
as Salesman (uncredited)
Jane Dewey
as Sales Clerk (uncredited)
Ellen Drew
as Cashier (uncredited)
Jimmie Dundee
as Greyhound Bus Driver (uncredited)
Yvonne Duval
as Sales Clerk (uncredited)
Fern Emmett
as Mother of Nasty Little Girl (uncredited)
Julia Faye
as Secretary (uncredited)
Greta Granstedt
as Sales Clerk (uncredited)
Joe Gray
as Red (uncredited)
Kit Guard
as 2nd Gangster / Prison Inmate (uncredited)
Harriette Haddon
as Cigarette Girl (uncredited)
Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian
as Lucky (uncredited)
Robert Homans
as Security Guard in Store (uncredited)
Arthur Hoyt
as Mr. Klein (uncredited)
John Hubbard
as Salesman (uncredited)
Barbara Jackson
as Demonstrator (uncredited)
Lola Jensen
as Sales Clerk (uncredited)
Gwen Kenyon
as Hat-Check Girl (uncredited)
Herta Lynd
as Swedish Waitress (uncredited)
Joyce Mathews
as Sales Clerk (uncredited)
Matt McHugh
as Newcomer (uncredited)
James McNamara
as Big Shot (uncredited)
Ray Middleton
as Salesman (uncredited)
Helaine Moler
as Sales Clerk (uncredited)
Jack Mulhall
as First Floorwalker (uncredited)
Paul Newlan
as Bouncer at Danceland (uncredited)
Carol Parker
as Sales Clerk (uncredited)
Edward Pawley
as Dutch (uncredited)
Jack Pennick
as Gangster (uncredited)
Juanita Quigley
as Nasty Little Girl (uncredited)
Margaret Randall
as Shoplifter (uncredited)
Ruth Rogers
as Blonde Salesgirl (uncredited)
Barbara Salisbury
as Demonstrator (uncredited)
Louise Seidel
as Hat-Check Girl (uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook
as Bartender (uncredited)
Archie Twitchell
as Salesman (uncredited)
Blanca Vischer
as Flower Girl (uncredited)
Cheryl Walker
as Sales Clerk (uncredited)
Phil Warren
as Secretary (uncredited)
Marion Weldon
as Demonstrator (uncredited)