Pre-Code grit meets wartime romance — she's selling dances, he's buying trouble.
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
Acting
Ann Dvorak's weary defiance steals every scene.
Direction
Salkow squeezes poetry from poverty-row sets.
Costume
Sequins and exhaustion — the uniform of survival.
Director
Sidney Salkow
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