Amateur Crook (1937)

Directors

Sam Katzman

The story

Betsy Cummings takes a job as a secretary, using the alias “Mary Layton”, only to find that her Father is being cheated by his brokers, Crone and Jan Jaffin. She steals the diamond, worth fifty thousand dollars, her Father used as collateral for a loan, which the brokers plan to cheat him out of; and, the chase is on, with the crooked loan sharks and police after her. Jimmy Baxter, an honest but broke artist, hides her as a mannequin, and helps her get away, in a stolen car.

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