The Girl in 419 (1933) DVD-R

Starring James Dunn, Gloria Stuart, David Manners, William Harrigan,
Shirley Grey, Jack La Rue
Directed by Alexander Hall, George Somnes

Print: black/white
Runtime: 67 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

A large urban hospital provides the setting for this drama. The staff there
has seen it all and this is reflected in their hard-bitten demeanor, their
cynicism, and the cruel jokes they play. One of them, an excellent
surgeon gains a new outlook on life after he gets involved with
investigating the death of a mobster, fatally shot in his hotel suite during
a card game. The police call him to the scene to look at the corpse. There
he discovers a lipstick-stained cigarette butt. He begins to search for the
woman who smoked it. Later that day, the woman, severely beaten, shows
up in the hospital emergency room. The surgeon miraculously saves her,
and then falls for her. As she lays healing, she is seen by a mobster who
had come to pay his respects to the cop who killed two members of his
rival gang. The mobster later sends one of his thugs to make sure that
the woman stays eternally quiet. The thug's attempt to kill her is thwarted
by a young intern who is wounded in the ensuing scuffle. The gangster
then gets himself admitted into the hospital where he plans to kill the
woman himself. This proves to be a fatal mistake as the vengeful intern
"accidently" injects the gangster with a deadly poison and then claims
that the mobster was D.O.A. The woman is now safe.