I Demand Payment (1938) DVD-R

Starring Jack La Rue, Betty Burgess, Matty Kemp, Guinn 'Big Boy'
Williams, Lloyd Hughes, Sheila Terry
Directed by Clifford Sanforth

Print: black/white
Runtime: 61 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

Jack LaRue goes through his usual unsavory paces in the not-bad
cheapie I Demand Payment. The film is one of several late-1930s exposes
of the loan-shark racket, with LaRue playing head shark Smiles Badollo
(five points for that name alone!) Among the victims of Badollo's usury are
heroine Judith Avery (Betty Burgess) and doctor Craig Mitchell (Lloyd
Hughes). When Judith's sister Rita (Sheila Terry) is murdered by the
villains, it's the beginning of the end for Badollo and company. Cast as
Jack LaRue's cowardly second-in-command is Matty Kemp, who later
ruffled more than a few Hollywood feathers as Mary Pickford's
no-nonsense business manager.