Sin's Pay Day

Forrest Stanley is a criminal lawyer who always gets them off, even if he has to use suborned testimony. When mobster Harry Semels is acquitted, his wife, Dorothy Revier leaves him and he goes on a bender that last long enough for them to scrape his name off his office door.

Director George B. Seitz handles a talented cast pretty well for Poverty Row producer Action films, and it's a pretty lively story, with the slums portrayed as pretty nasty, but with sprigs of hope in it. Mickey Rooney makes his first of 16 appearances in Seitz' film, Bess Flowers gets a credited role, and Paul Panzer has a nice small role as a drunk drinking milk.

Many capable directors fell from the A list in the conversion to sound. Some never made their way back up, but Seitz worked his way up into the ranks of MGM as a capable director of comedies before his death in 1944 at the age of 56.