Lady Gangster (1942)
1h 2m | PG-13
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners have different ideas.
Director: Robert Florey
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Genre: Crime, Drama
Video: 720p
Cast
Faye Emerson
as Dorothy Burton
Julie Bishop
as Myrtle Reed
Frank Wilcox
as Kenneth Phillips
Roland Drew
as Carey Wells
Jackie Gleason
as Wilson
Ruth Ford
as Lucy Fenton
Reviews
This certainly doesn't hang about - it is a fast paced and quite enjoyable crime noir. Faye Emerson plays "Dot" who is the stooge at a bank robbery. Her only problem is that the robbers get away with $40,000 and she gets caught and sent to jail; not before, that is, she reclaims the missing loot and deposits it with her landlady for safe-keeping. One of her fellow inmates can lip read, realises what's she's done and her life takes a turn for the more dangerous... It's got pretty soggy dialogue and the prison is more like a YWCA with fewer bars. There's a fun car chase at the end, though....