Early work from Sylvia Sidney and George Raft as a young couple in love- shes out of prison and constantly having men proposition her, thinking she's a hooker, he's a cab owner who thinks she's a hooker but looks after when she needs a place to stay. They fall in love. I'm pretty sure they are sleeping together - they live together, and its implied he sleeps with her before he even knows her name. She helps him but the third act involves the return of her no good husband, and a society dame panting over Raft.
Sidney was ideal in these little waif sort of roles. Raft is wooden - at the end when he pleads for a lawyer to help Sidney it's awful - but he teams well with Sidney.
It's more adult, being pre-Code, which helps.
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