Some ripped-from-the-headlines el cheapo drama courtesy of the King Brothers which benefits from decent handling. Ricardo Cortez, who made I Killed That Man for the brothers, plays a gangster who gets out of prison and discovers tire rationing. He decides to make some money, but his moll falls in love with a decent mechanic.
There's good conflict in the moll being in love with the mechanic. The mechanic is a bit of a self righteous prat, whipping up his fellow factory workers into a vigilante mob. But there's lots of fascinating period detail: the moll (Rochelle Hudson) making wisecracks about rationing affecting make up, Hudson going to work at an armaments factory at the end, workers listening to praise from the president, the business of buying cars in war time.
The female characters are strong and there's also an unexpectedly good Chinese-American part - Cortez's servant who enlists to join the army, then comes back and won't help his boss when he finds out the latter is a war profiteer - he gets a heroic death and everything.
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