Whirlpool (1934)

1934 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Whirlpool (1934)
Drama Romance Crime

Carnie owner Buck Rankin marries local girl Helen and plans to go straight, but after a brawl ends up with a twenty-year sentence for manslaughter. When a pregnant Helen vows to wait for him Rankin forges a letter from the warden's office informing Helen that Rankin drowned while attempting to escape. Twenty years later Rankin is released from prison, changes his name to "Duke Sheldon", and eventually becomes a nightclub owner with ties to the mob. Helen has remarried - to a local judge - and daughter Sandra has become a reporter. When it's learned that notoriously camera-shy "Duke Sheldon" will be providing a mobster's alibi at a high-profile trial Sandra is sent to write an exposé. She immediately recognizes Rankin from a photo her mother kept, and father and daughter have a tearful reunion. Now Rankin must decide what to do: testify at the trial, revealing his identity and exposing Helen as an unintentional bigamist. Or refuse to testify, protecting Helen and Sandra but angering the mob.

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Jack Holt · Jean Arthur · Donald Cook · Allen Jenkins · Lila Lee · John Miljan · Rita La Roy · Oscar Apfel · Willard Robertson · Ward Bond

Screenplay Dorothy Howell · Ethel Hill · Howard Emmett Rogers

Cinematography Benjamin H. Kline

Original title Whirlpool

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