The Wages of Sin (1938)

Directors

Herman E. Webber

The story

The film begins with a long subtitled introduction, stating 90,000 women in the US go missing annually and suggesting many are forced by circumstances to join the "Sisterhood of Sorrow". Marjorie Benton, who is "just a kid," dreams of an office job, but works at the Pacific Laundry and is the only breadwinner for a family of coarsely-spoken strikers and loafers. She finally goes on a night out with Florence, one of the other laundry workers, to a seedy nightclub.

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