Lady Gangster

Unrated

4/1/19421h 2m

Theatrical Release (US)

Overview:

An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 bank 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

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

gangster
stolen money
women's prison
prison warden
prison escape
bank robbery
criminal gang
botched robbery
hidden money
lip reading
plea
snitch
radio announcer
female gangster

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

Virginia Brissac

~ as ~

Mrs. Stoner

Dorothy Vaughan

~ as ~

Jenkins

Dorothy Adams

~ as ~

Deaf Annie

William Hopper

~ as ~

John

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 3 year(s) ago
6
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....