Soapy and Annie Gibson (Edward Ellis and Marjorie Rambeau) are loners and don't like guests. You soon realize why....Soapy escaped from prison many years before and he's been living a respectable life ever since. But when an old gang member's daughter is homelss, the Gibsons agree to take her in and treat her like kin. Life this way is great...until an evil grifter, Magruder (Louis Calhern) ,arrives. He knows who Soapy is and threatens to turn him in to the law unless they agree to let him use their house to attract wealthy women....so Magruder can cheat them. However, when one of his potential marks turns out poorly, he panics and kills her! What are the Gibsons to do? After all, they know what Magruder did but if they go to the cops, Soapy is sure to be returned to the pokey. What's next? Well, considering how awful Magruder is, it won't be good!!
I read through the only other review for this film up to now. I noticed that the other review (a very well written one, by the way) that they felt the film started slowly and they nearly turned it off....but were glad they didn't. Well, that's exactly how I felt...it turned out to be a good movie but sure started off slowly. Once the plot got moving and Magruder showed up, it improved dramatically. Well worth seeing...and Calhern was marvelous as a complete and total heel.
