Sin's Pay Day

{{short description|1932 film}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2019}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Sin's Pay Day

| image = File:Sin's Pay Day.jpg

| caption = Poster using the films alternative title

| director = George B. Seitz

| producer = Ralph M. Like
Cliff P. Broughton

| writer = Betty Burbridge
Gene Morgan

| starring = Lloyd Whitlock
Dorothy Revier
Mickey Rooney

| cinematography = Jules Cronjager

| editing = Byron Robinson

| studio = Action Pictures

| distributor = Mayfair Pictures

| released = {{film date|1932|3|1}}

| runtime = 61 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

}}

Sin's Pay Day is a 1932 American pre-Code crime film directed by George B. Seitz and starring Lloyd Whitlock, Dorothy Revier and Mickey Rooney.{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/110275/Sin-s-Payday/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104164830/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/110275/Sin-s-Payday/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 4, 2012|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide|author=Hal Erickson|title=Sin's Pay Day review|author-link=Hal Erickson (author)|date=2012|access-date=June 25, 2011}} It was produced on Poverty Row as a second feature.Pitts p.242 It was later reissued under the alternative title Slums of New York with advertising material devoting greater attention to child actor Rooney, who had since emerged as a star at MGM.

Plot

Attorney Robert Webb makes a good living as a defense lawyer for gangsters. This disgusts his wife, who leaves him and goes to set up a charitable clinic. After getting a notorious mob leader acquitted on a technicality, Webb develops a conscience and turns to alcohol letting his practice collapse. Living on the streets, he is befriended by a boy who helps him gain his self-respect. When the boy is then killed by a bullet fired from a gangster's gun, Webb goes undercover to pose as a defense lawyer once more while secretly recording the incriminating conversation, which he turns over to the police. A reformed man, he and his wife reconcile.

Cast

References

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Bibliography

  • Pitts, Michael R. Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each. McFarland & Company, 2005.