He still hasn't quite developed the charm he would later have, and whoever did his eye make-up should have been shot, but he's certainly on his way to being a star. The film was competently directed by Monty Banks who obviously had a way with Lancashire talent since he would go on to marry Gracie Fields . Late Anna Neagle vehicle and one of the few not directed by her husband Herbert Wilcox. Not bad as these things go. Silly, dreary, low-life saga.
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Penniless dancer Jennie Carr gets a helping hand from a New York lawyer, but he is murdered by gangsters. She is the only one who can identify the killers, but she knows nothing about it. On the boat home she is framed for theft and it's only when she gets out of jail that she realises what has happened, and that an innocent man is due to be executed for the murder. Anna Lee, as Jennie, makes an agreeably sparky heroine. Some of the scenes show up the limitations of her acting, but she looks so fabulous and has so much energy that it really doesn't matter.