Below the Deadline (1936) DVD-R

Starring Cecilia Parker, Russell Hopton, Theodore von Eltz, Thomas E.
Jackson, Warner Richmond
Directed by Charles Lamont

Print: black/white
Runtime: 64 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

Molly Fitzgerald, who works for Abrams and Co. Jewelers (although the
company safe reads "Adams & Co. Jewelers"), is accosted on the street
by a stranger who asks her for a date, but her fiancé, police officer Terry
Mulvaney chases him away. Spike, the stranger, is interested in Molly
other than for her pretty face; he is a member of a gang of jewel thieves
who are planning to rob Abrams and want to use her to obtain information
regarding the merchant's shipments of jewels. Through another ruse,
gang member Flash Ackroyd gets the information and, through careful
planning, frames Terry for the robbery. One of Abrams' assistants is killed
and Terry is charged with robbery and murder. Terry escapes but Molly is
fired as Abrams thinks she was in on the robbery. Molly gets a job in a
nightclub ran by the gangsters. The train on which Terry is escaping is
wrecked and he is transported to a hospital more dead than alive.