In this very watchable programmer, Barton Maclane is a tuna boat skipper. He and Glenda Farrell are due to be married. The night before a friend's marriage, her brother gets into a fistfight with Maclane and dies. Maclane is sent to prison for manslaughter. His plans to get out after a year are thwarted when tough guy Ward Bond continually riles him into a fight. When Maclane finally gets out on parole, he finds that no one wants to hire him.
Maclane plays the big, bluff, decent guy perfectly and his chemistry with Miss Farrell is fine; they had worked together in the "Torchy Blaine" series at Warners. Although this Trem Carr production for Universal shows signs of unfortunate cheapness -- mostly in the score -- the movie tells its story well and makes some good points about the failings of the parole system without going overboard in its stridency.
Maclane plays the big, bluff, decent guy perfectly and his chemistry with Miss Farrell is fine; they had worked together in the "Torchy Blaine" series at Warners. Although this Trem Carr production for Universal shows signs of unfortunate cheapness -- mostly in the score -- the movie tells its story well and makes some good points about the failings of the parole system without going overboard in its stridency.