Mary’s younger sister Betty (Jane Bryan) unexpectedly visits from college, and learns Mary’s secret life. But when he puts her on the stand, she changes her testimony and Vanning is acquitted. Mary’s arrested and Prosecutor David Graham (Humphrey Bogart) believes he has convinced Mary to testify against the gangsters. When Vanning’s henchman, Charlie Delaney (Ben Welden), bumps off Ralph Krawfurd (Damian O’Flynn) for not paying his gambling debts, Mary is implicated when her address is found on the victim. He intimidates the girls to either work for him or else he’ll make sure they don’t work in any nightclub. The connected mobster creates a clip-joint, making the girls hostesses. Racketeer Johnny Vanning (Eduardo Ciannelli) takes over the Club Intime where Mary Dwight (Bette Davis) and her roommates, Gabby Marvin (Lola Lane), Emmy Lou Egan (Isabel Jewell), Florrie Liggett (Rosalind Marquis) and Estelle Porter (Mayo Methot), are working. Miller keep things heated up, as the prostitutes who testified against their ruthless clip-joint boss are sympathetically portrayed. Writers Abem Finkel, Robert Rossen and Seton I. Lloyd Bacon (“42nd Street”/”Gold Diggers of 1937″/”Invisible Stripes”) directs this bristling crime drama torn from the day’s headlines (in 1936, Special Prosecutor Thomas E Dewey put Lucky Luciano behind bars on prostitution charges). “Bristling crime drama torn from the day’s headlines.”
Davidson (Bob Crandall) Runtime: 98 MPAA Rating: NR producers: Louis F. Forbstein cast: Bette Davis (Mary Dwight), Humphrey Bogart (David Graham), Jane Bryan (Betty Strauber), Eduardo Ciannelli (Johnny Vanning), Isabel Jewell (Emmy Lou Egan), Mayo Methot (Estelle Porter), Lola Lane (Gabby Marvin), Rosalind Marquis (Florrie Liggett), Ben Welden (Charlie Delaney), Damian O’Flynn (Ralph Krawford), William B. Miller cinematographer: George Barnes editor: Jack Killifer music: Leo F. (director: Lloyd Bacon screenwriters: Abem Finkel/Robert Rossen/Seton I.
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