There's a police raid on the gambling den. When they break into Wheeler Oakman's office, they find Martha Chapin standing over his corpse with a smoking gun. Soon she is in the office of District Attorney Edward Keane with her husband, research doctor Robert Frazer. Under questions, she starts telling the events that led to her murdering Oakman in extended flashback. She had been lured there by Vera Steadman, and had won at first, and spent the money. Then she lost heavily, and to pay off the debt was turned into a call girl.
It's cheap, Code-compliant exploitation, with occasional chorines in jiggly costumes, and Miss Chaplin disrobing: alternate shots of undergarments tossed to the floor, and Miss Chapin visible from the shoulder blade up.
Could this movie be considered an early example of film noir, or perhaps pre-noir? The flashback structure argues that it is, but if so, that's about it. It's cheap, it's sensational, and that is undoubtedly how it was sold to contemporary audiences.
It's cheap, Code-compliant exploitation, with occasional chorines in jiggly costumes, and Miss Chaplin disrobing: alternate shots of undergarments tossed to the floor, and Miss Chapin visible from the shoulder blade up.
Could this movie be considered an early example of film noir, or perhaps pre-noir? The flashback structure argues that it is, but if so, that's about it. It's cheap, it's sensational, and that is undoubtedly how it was sold to contemporary audiences.