When Nina Rae McKinney slaps a cop across the face for insinuating things about her and nightclub owner/secret rackateer Laurence Criner (Gat Dalton, a great name for a mobster), it's easy to pray for her comeuppance. After all, he has people killed, and she's giving him phony alibis. But she's not whom she appears to be, and it's highly insinuated that she has had relations with him to simply gain his trust.
The great Neva Peoples gets a nifty Harlem anthem (with McKinney conducting the orchestra), and Mantan Moreland provides comedy as one of Criner's henchmen. He's so good natured that you just don't want to see him come to harm or jail time even though he's on the other side of the law. It's a tie between McKinney and Moreland as to scene stealing. Lots of jazz, action and intrigue makes for a quick moving all black crime film that's as gritty as anything from the Warner Brothers.
The great Neva Peoples gets a nifty Harlem anthem (with McKinney conducting the orchestra), and Mantan Moreland provides comedy as one of Criner's henchmen. He's so good natured that you just don't want to see him come to harm or jail time even though he's on the other side of the law. It's a tie between McKinney and Moreland as to scene stealing. Lots of jazz, action and intrigue makes for a quick moving all black crime film that's as gritty as anything from the Warner Brothers.