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Sin's Pay Day
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Wikipedia article
'Sin's Pay Day' is a 1932 American pre-Code crime film directed by George B. Seitz and starring Lloyd Whitlock, Dorothy Revier and Mickey Rooney. It was produced on Poverty Row as a second feature.Pitts p.242 It was later reissued under the alternative title ' Slums of New York' with advertising material devoting greater attention to child actor Rooney, who had since emerged as a star at MGM.
Synopsis
Attorney Robert Webb makes a good living as a defense lawyer for gangsters. This disgusts his wife who leaves him and goes to set up a charitable clinic. After getting a notorious mob leader acquitted on a technicality, Webb develops a conscience and turns to alcohol letting his practice collapse. Living on the streets, he is befriended by a boy who helps him gain his self-respect. When the boy is then killed by a bullet fired from a gangster's gun, Webb goes undercover to pose as a defense lawyer once more while secretly recording the incriminating conversation which he turns over to the police. A reformed man, he and his wife reconcile.
Cast
* Lloyd Whitlock as Robert Webb
* Dorothy Revier as Iris Markey
* Mickey Rooney as Chubby Dennis
* Forrest Stanley as James Markey
* Bess Flowers as Jane Webb
* Hal Price as Jake Bernheim
* Harry Semels as Louie Joe
* Paul Panzer as Derelict Drinking Milk
References
Bibliography
* Pitts, Michael R. 'Poverty Row Studios, 19291940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each'. McFarland & Company, 2005.
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