
Marked Woman. 1937. USA. Directed by Lloyd Bacon. Screeplay by Robert Rossen, Abem Finkel. With Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane, Mayo Methot. 97 min.
In this crime drama, Bogart plays a DA trying to clean up the activities of local gangsters and the prostitutes they employ. Mary, who likes to think of herself as a “hostess” while entertaining various male callers, uses her earnings to pay her innocent sister’s college tuition. But after enduring a brutal beating, Mary partners with Bogey to go after a crooked nightclub owner.