Sin's Pay Day

Sin's Pay Day
Poster using the films alternative title
Directed by	George B. Seitz
Written by	Betty Burbridge Gene Morgan
Produced by	Ralph M. Like Cliff P. Broughton
Starring	Lloyd Whitlock Dorothy Revier Mickey Rooney
Cinematography	Jules Cronjager
Edited by	Byron Robinson
Production company	Action Pictures
Distributed by	Mayfair Pictures
Release date	March 1, 1932 (1932-03-01)
Running time	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.^[1] It was produced on Poverty Row as a second feature.^[2] 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

• Lloyd Whitlock as Robert Webb
• Dorothy Revier as Iris Markey
• Mickey Rooney as Chubby Dennis
• Forrest Stanley as James Markey
• Bess Flowers as Jane Webb
• Hal Price as Jake Bernheim
• Harry Semels as Louie Joe
• Paul Panzer as Derelict Drinking Milk

References

1. Hal Erickson (2012). "Sin's Pay Day review". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
2. Pitts p.242

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.

External links

• Sin's Pay Day at IMDb