Midnight Mary (1933)

'Midnight Mary' is another Wellman directed pre code picture, this one featuring a 19 year old Loretta Young who is astoundingly beautiful. She's a good girl whose had a rough life, got mixed up as a gangsters moll, then get's an opportunity and goes straight for awhile, but ultimately has to back out when her old life threatens the safety of the good man for whom she's fallen in love (Franchot Tone). Film is bookended by her murder trail. More then competently done, but still unable to transcend it's genera limitations. It's Young's presence that makes the movie not completely forgettable. **